TRANSACTION: CIF (ASWP)
INSTRUMENT: SBLC (MT 760)
PRICE: $97/4

CIF TERMS & TRANSACTION PROCEDURES
1. Buyer Company issues Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order (ICPO) on its official company letterhead to the seller.
2. Seller Company issues Draft Contract / Sales & Purchase Agreement (SPA Open for amendments if any) both parties sign and seal the present contract and exchange the copies electronically.
3. On Seller’s expense Seller Company registers and legalizes contracts officially with the appropriate authorities to facilitate booking of allocation and securing a legitimate approval for the Transfer of Ownership Title/Allocation to buyer’s Company name at seller’s expense.
4. Seller Company sends copy of the notarized and insured POP documents along with the legalized Contract to buyer Company’s secured email. The Partial POP documents to be send along with the legalized Contract include:
4.1. Certificate of Origin
4.2. Affidavit of Title Transfer Certificate
4.3. Statement of Product Availability
4.4. Product Quality Passport (Dip Test Analysis)
4.5. Refinery Commitment to Produce / Supply
4.6. Refinery Legalized Draft Contract
4.7. Proforma Invoice 15% Security Guarantee
5. On confirmation of the receipt of the partial POP, buyer must within five (5) banking days issue the Bank Guarantee in the form of (SBLC/MT760). Failure to issue the said bank guarantee within the stipulated days. Buyer issues a Performance security financial deposit, paid to Sellers Fiduciary bank account of $ 15% of the total value of the product. This is to enable the seller secure the service of the Vessel for the transportation of the product to buyer’s destination port. Note: Fee made by buyer will be deducted when making payment for the total cost of the product at the discharge port after a successful CIQ/SGS test at the discharge port.
6. Seller’s bank sends through swift the original and full Proof of Product (POP) documents along with the 5% operative performance bond to the buyer’s bank and the irrevocable documentary letter of credit issued by the buyer’s bank on to the seller’s bank will become immediately operative:
6.1. Copy of the Charter Party Agreement to transport the product to discharge port
6.2. Copy of Shipping Schedule Document
6.3. Product Analysis Report
6.4. Certificate of Origin. Bill of Lading Tank Receipt
6.5. Vessel Q88
6.6. SGS Report
6.7. Certificate of Product
7. Both banks will confirm to seller and to buyer that the irrevocable documentary letter of credit and 5% PB has been accepted and the shipping commences as scheduled in the contract for the CIF delivery.
8. Payment will be made for the product by the buyer’s Bank via T/T MT103 Wire Transfer to the seller’s bank after the CIQ/SGS Inspection at port of discharge and the delivery to the buyer’s bank of all documents required by the contract.
9. Seller releases the commission of the intermediaries immediately.

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