QUESTION Hi Mr. Old Man, We need your advice on the following issue: We issued an LC in favour of Beneficiary B. The applicant requests us to issue an amendment to change Beneficiary B into Beneficiary C. Can we issue such an amendment? Is the presentation made by the new beneficiary that complies with the LC deemed to be the …

QUESTION Dear Mr Old Man, Have a good day… Our customer asks us to add below special conditions in the credit: 1) Documents including BL dated prior to the issuance date of this credit are ACCEPTABLE. 2) Short form/black back BL NOT ACCEPTABLE. 3) Documents showing consignee as “TO ORDER’ and notify as “APPLICANT” are ACCEPTABLE. 4) Copy of documents …

QUESTION Please help me understand the reason for existence of Art.30 c of UCP 600. Is it applicable only when: 1. Credit prohibits partial shipment? 2. Quantity is stated in the credit and that quantity is shipped in full even when stated in quantities like Metric Tons etc? 3. Unit price if stated in the credit is unaltered in the …

QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, I have one question and need your answer please. There are situations where Freight Forwarder Bill of Lading is required instead of Ocean Bill of Lading. Will appreciate if you could mention these situations. Awaiting your answer. Thanks & Regards, Ziyad —– ANSWER Hi, Regarding Freight Forwarder’s Bill of Lading, I would like to note …

QUESTION Dear Mr. Old Man, May I ask a few questions. 1) Why do issuing banks allow TT reimbursement? because I know China banks do not. 2) Where TT reimbursement is allowed and a reimbursing bank is nominated in LC, I understand it’s not common for the nominated bank to be informed upon LC issuance, am I right? In any …

QUESTION Credit stated that the “Insurance Policy endorsed in blank, for full CIF value plus at least 10% stipulating Claims payable at destination covering ……” . Note : Port of discharge : X port, India. My questions: 1) Does it mean that Insurance documents need to state “with claims payable at destination…….” ? 2) How about If the insurance documents …

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. …