Reference

BR-09 Seller country code is required

The Seller postal address (BG-5) shall contain a Seller country code (BT-40) identifying the seller’s country.

This is an EN 16931 core rule. The seller country drives VAT treatment and cross-border handling, so the seller address must always contain a country code. A country written only in an address line does not count, and the code must be a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 value (BR-CL-14). In CII, BT-40 is ram:PostalTradeAddress/ram:CountryID.

Solution

Add cac:PostalAddress/cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode with an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code such as DE.

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Valid Examples

BT-40 = DE — ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code present

Invalid Examples

cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode is missing inside the seller postal address

Code Examples

Valid XML

<cac:PostalAddress>
  <cbc:CityName>Berlin</cbc:CityName>
  <cac:Country>
    <cbc:IdentificationCode>DE</cbc:IdentificationCode>
  </cac:Country>
</cac:PostalAddress>

Invalid XML

<cac:PostalAddress>
  <cbc:CityName>Berlin</cbc:CityName>
  <cbc:PostalZone>10115</cbc:PostalZone>
</cac:PostalAddress>

Affected Fields

BT-40 Seller country code

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