QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, I have a case that needs your professional advice: LC required, among other documents, Commercial Invoice in 4 copies. The presenter made presentation with the covering schedule indicating 4 copies of Commercial Invoice presented. However, when checking the documents the issuing bank found only 3 copies presented and raised the discrepancy “3 copies of invoice …

QUESTION I have come accross this statement. “Under UCP600, the DPU remains undefined and still a bit of a mystery as to whether/how its incurrence may/must be evidenced.” Could you please comment further? Best regards, G. —- ANSWER Hi, You may have learnt about Banco Santander case in connection with discounting one’s own deferred payment undertaking (DPU). The main details …

QUESTION L/C allows shipment from USA to India. In the B/L, both the place of receipt and port of loading indicate “New Jersey” and port of discharge and place of destination as name of Indian port. B/L only states a vessel name of xxxx. No indication that any transhipment has been made. No mention of any second vessel name in …

QUESTION Dear Sir, Sometimes the beneficiary presents the discrepant documents and requests my bank to negotiate the documents. In this case we would forward the documents to the issuing bank stating the discrepancies and ask for the issuing bank’s authorization or approval for us to negotiate the documents. Sometimes the issuing bank gives us its authorization to negotiate such documents. …

QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, I appreciate if you clarify the following points regarding insurance documents? Case 1: L/C requires Insurance Certificate in 2 originals? Two original Insurance Certificates are presented without indicating the number of originals issued. It is a discrepancy? In my opinion, if only one original is presented, there is no need for the insurance policy to …

QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, I’m from MB Bank. I would highly appreciate your professional opinion on the following case relating to handling collection instructions under unauthenticated swift message. We, as the collecting bank, received collection instructions with amount of USD150,000. Right after that, we received unauthenticated swift message from the remitting bank allowing us release the documents against payment …

CO_ACCEPTANCE OF BILLS QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, We need your expert opinion in the following case: We received one documents for collection from Bank A with the condition “90 days D/A co-accepted by bank”. Our bank sent MT499 to Bank A indicated “the documents have been co-accepted by us and we will make payment on due date”. We released …

QUESTION Hi Mr. Old Man, I feel confused with the following case: We as advising bank received a letter of credit available with any bank by negotiation and advised the same to the beneficiary. After shipment the beneficiary presented the documents to our bank and we forwarded the documents to the issuing bank without negotiation. I understand that in this …

HOWERVER NAMED QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, PLS answer my questions: I don’t understand the word “HOWEVER NAMED” in UCP 600, particularly Art 20 (a), which says “ A bill of lading, however named…..”. What does it mean? If on the face of the document, we determine and treat it as a bill of lading except the title ” Charter …

QUESTION Good day, Mr. Old Man. We have an LC opened in our favour that allows partial shipments. Every time we present a drawing the confirming bank will find a discrepancy or two even though our bank (the advising Bank) would have assured us there were no discrepancies. The applicant ( buyer) always accepts the discrepancies (since sometimes the goods …