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wpe a FH. of 104 FORM NO.: ETP 101 ee ee La aac d oredta Frafe wet md frre fa. EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEE ‘CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD. (A Government of inca Ener) ‘ete erate: cree cia, 10 afr, >) Registered Ofice : Express Towers, 10h Floor, Nariman Point, Mumba = 400 021, india We, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited have issued this POLICY to you the INSURED named in the ‘Schedule to this POLICY ("the Schedule?) "You have completed a Proposal in writing and applied tous for indemnity in respect ofthe whole of your export trade with buyers in the countries spocfed in the Schedule (Schedule of Countries) save and except those that are speciied as ‘excluded in this POLICY and we have agreed to give you such Indemnity subject to all the terme and conditions contained in the POLICY including the payment of premium and other charges specified inthe Schedule "Premium Schedule") We agree that: (@) We wil indemnity you up to the Insured Percentage ‘of the INSURED LOSS specified in the Schedule or upto the amount of the relevant Credit Limit available on the INSURED BUYER whichevor of the two amounts is losser if any INSURED BUYER fails to pay you ary INSURED DEBT by reason of any ofthe following INSURED PERILS (Buyer Fisk), namely, — () PROTRACTED DEFAULT (i) INSOLVENCY or (il) CONTRACT REPUDIATION, (©) And wo willindomnity you upto the Insured Percentage of the INSURED LOSS if any INSURED BUYER, is prevented from paying to you any INSURED DEBT or part thereot by reason of any of the INSURED PERILS (Poitical Fisk), namoly- ()_INCONVERTIBILITY (¥) CONTRACT FRUSTRATION (v) CONTRACT CANCELLATION (vil) IMPORT RESTRICTION or (vil) SHIPMENT DIVERSION Note for interpretation: Headings in the POLICY are used for ease of reference ‘only and are fo be disregarded in construing the POLICY. Definitions of the tems in upper case type are given atthe ‘end of the POLICY. In the POLICY the singular includes the plural and vice vorsa. ‘The words "the INSURED" and "the Corporation” when used in the Schedule or in any Endorsements forming part ofthe POLICY shall have the same meaning as references in the POLICY (other than in the Schedule or such Endorsements) 10 "you" of “your and "we" or “us” or “our” respectively ‘TERMS AND CONDITIONS The POLICY is subject tothe folowing terms and ‘conditions and ary failura.or nagligence on your part to comply vith any of them may discharge us from our obligation to indemnity you. 1.YOUR PROPOSAL Both you and we have épecfically accepted your Proposal as being the basis of the contract contained in the POLICY and thatthe said Proposal forms part ofthe POLICY. By signing the Proposal form and accepting the POLICY you warrant that the statements made inthe Proposal were true atthe date ofthe Proposal and at the date when we agreed to issue the POLICY. ‘You also warrant that you will immediatly notify us of ‘any material chango tothe information supplied in the Proposal form or of any other material fact affecting the POLICY. ‘These warrantios do not limit any legal obligation or duty (at common law or otherwise) on you to disclose to us all material facts and circumstances and to act with the utmost ‘900d faith a all times. At the time of any amendment, change, variation and/ or addition to the POLICY you must disciose to us all material facts and circumstances. and your failure to do so wil render the amendment, change, variation and/or addition void ab inito, 2.YOUR OBLIGATIONS (@) Its your duty to exercise reasonable care and prudence Jn granting credit to an INSURED BUYER. (b) You wil take all practicable measures avaiable to you to prevent any loss arising (fo you and/or us) and should any loss arise to minimize it (©) After we have made a claim payment to you in respect of fan INSURED BUYER you will continue to take all practicable ‘measures to collect or realize INSURED DEBT and if required by us you will assign the relovant INSURED DEBT to us and \We shall account to you for any uninsured proportion of any 3, NOTIFICATION AND CONSULTATION {a) If ou have reason to bolieve that an INSURED BUYER is tunable to ori likely 19 be unable to perform or comply with hig obligations to you under any contract of sale which shall include non-payment ofa bill of exchange on due date you ‘must noiy us immediately ether in writing or electronically (with our approval but in any case not later than 30 days fafter you become aware of one oF more ofthe crcumsiances: ‘mentioned above (®) If as on the last day of a month an INSURED DEBT is Femaining unpaid for 90 days or more after its DUE DATE of ‘payment. you must by not later than tha 15% day of the next ‘month notify us full details of all uch overdue payments in ‘ur prescribed form. (6) In the event of the occurrence of any INSURED PERIL, Yyou must notity us in writing immediately but in any case not lator than 20 days after such occurrence, (d) Inall the cases explained in (b) and (c) above you must — () continue to notify us monthly in the format required by us until — ‘INSOLVENCY has occured: or ‘#4 claim has boon submitted to us; or the INSURED DEBT has been paid/ realized whichovor isthe earlier. {W) provide usin wrting without delay with any information which we may request following our receipt of notation in ‘accordance with (a), (b) or (c) above; (ii) take all practicable measures available to you to prevent or minimize any loss in respect of the INSURED BUYER; (tv) Continuo to tako al prudent and reasonable stops which we may require, including institution of legal ‘proceedings, in connection with any loss which you may have Incurred or may be likely to incur. If requested by us to do so you shall execute such documents and take such actions as ‘we may raquire of you to enable us to intervene directly in ‘any proceedings relating to the INSURED DEBT. Your strict compliance with the terms of Condition is a ‘condition precedent to our lablty. 4. EXTENDING DUE DATE OF PAYMENT ‘You must not agree to a postponement of the original ‘due date for payment of any INSURED DEBT either in the ‘contract of sale or otherwise except when — () the contractually agreed terms of payment are not ‘cash against presentation of shipping documents through a bank oF, payment secured by documentary bill of exchange payable at sight (CADY OP terms), and (il) the need for such extonsion arises prior to the DUE DATE of payment and is being considered by you on an application trom the INSURED BUYER received prior to such DUE DATE, and il) extension of due date isnot being implicitly accepted by you after the failure of an INSURED BUYER to pay on the ‘due date, and (lv) the extended cradit period isin conformity with all the relevant and applicable regulatory requirements, and (v) you have obtained our written approval before ‘ranting such extension. We will bo entitled to dectine to indemnity you of any {osses unless the extension in due date of payment granted ‘by you is in compliance with all of the above conditions, 5. LOSSES WHICH ARE NOT INSURED UNDER THE POLICY ‘The following sums are not insured under the POLICY ‘and itis warranted that those sums are not insured under ‘any other policy and romain at your own risk — () s0 much of any INSURED LOSS as exceeds the isured Percentage and (Gi) s0 much of any INSURED LOSS occasioned by any of the Buyer Risks, namely, PROTRACTED DEFAULT, INSOLVENCY or CONTRACT REPUDIATION, as exceeds the Credit Limit for that buyer. 6. ASSIGNMENT OF YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE POLICY (8) You shall not assign tho POLICY or any benefits under the POLICY except with our written consent and complying with any requirements we may make. (©) It you assign the POLICY without first obtaining our ‘congent then the POLICY will be void from the date of such assignment. (6)! you assign any benefits undr the POLICY without first obtaining our consent then we shall not be bound by Such assignment in respect of payment of any claim under the POLICY. 7. REDUCTION, VARIATION OR CANCELLATION OF YOUR COVER We may at any time at our sole dscration by giving you notice in writing — ‘© Reduce the Credit Limit fora INSURED BUYER andor '* Cancel or vary the cover granted in respect of any INSURED BUYER or country, or © Modity the classification of the countries spectiog in the Schedule. ‘Any such reduction, variation or cancellation shall apply to any DESPATCH of goods made after you have received the written notice. 8. GIVING NOTICE Any notice which we may give to you under the POLICY including any notice relating to a Credit Limit, country Classification and/or the reduction or cancellation of cover ‘may be given = ‘by ordinary post or by recorded delivery through a reputed private courier service to your address as stated in the Schedule orto any other address of which we have boen ‘otitied by you for this purpose; ot ‘by facsimile or, by agreement, electronically ‘Any notice sent by ordinary post or by courier service shall be deemad to be served on the third working day after Posting or handing over to the courier or on your receipt, if earier. For the purpose ofthis condition a working day means ‘any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day that is a Public holiday in the place to which the notice is addressed. ‘Any notice sent electronically, including by facsimile, shall, bbe daemed to be served on viewing by you oF on the first working day atter transmission, whichever isthe ear 8. CURRENCIES (2) The currency of the POLICY is Indian rupees. (©) The Credit Limit are rupee limits and any amounts payable under the POLICY are payable in rpoes, (c) When you make a contract with an INSURED BUYER that provided for payment in a currency other than rupee the invoice value ofthe goods DESPATCHED shallbe converted Into rupee for declaration purposes at the rate of exche ruling in the local foreign exchange market as at the close of business on the date on which you DESPATCHED the goods. ‘The rate of exchange for each DESPATCH of goods shall be recorded in your records and @ total of the rupee items shall be declarod, (@) The same rate of exchange as that used for declaration purpose shall be used for the purpose of calculating our liability if aciaim arses oxcopt that any amount collected or realized in a foreign currency and applicable towards reducing the INSURED DEBT shall be converted into rupee immeciately and applied to arive at the INSURED LOSS and thatthe currency in which the buyer has to make Payment is devalued botore the claim is paid, the emount payable will be atved on the basis ofthe devalued rate 10, POLICY PERIOD, PREMIUMS AND CHARGES (@) Ths is a continuous POLICY, which uniess otherwise agreed, shall continue for consacutve periods of 12 months ‘Ath end ofthe frst or any subsequent Period of Cover (as species in the Schedule) either you or we may elect to torminaie tho POLICY by gving notice tothe other n writing before the close of any such period (©) Inthe event hat you wish to terminate the POLICY before the end ofthe Period of Cover wo shall bo anttlod ~ (to payment ofall premium due and payable in rospoct of prior Periods of Cover, (to retain the amount of Advance Deposit Premium(s) paid ane ii) 0 10 botwoon all promium du and payable up to end including the fective data of such termination; or ‘# the balance of the Advance Deposit Premiums) for the Period of Cover. (6) The Advance Deposit Promium payable by you shal be ccaleulated by reterence to the aggregate amount of your estimated exports during the Period of Cover subject to a minimum ofthe Minimum Promium Payable specified inthe Schedule. At the commencement of the Period of Cover and thereatter on or before each of the Datos for Payment pected in the Schedule you shal pay to us the Advance Deposit of Promium as spectied in the Schedule or as may be adjustod by usin elaonto yout declarations made undor Condon 11 (€) On receipt ot your declaration of export turnover for a Declaration Period, we wil calculate the premium due on the shipmonts so declared tous atthe relevant rate(e) spectiog in tho Premium Schedule, (6) The Advance Deposit of Premium paid by you for @ Declaration Period willbe adjusted against the amount of premium calculated as due from you on shipments doctarod by you for the corresponding period. Shortal i any will be payable by you on demand. ithe amount of Advance Deposit ‘of Premium paid exceeded the promium calculated as due ‘on shipments made by you, subject to a minimum retantion ‘of an amount equivalent tothe Minimum Premium Payabe, the surplus wil bo credited to your Advance Dopost Pramium. ‘No par ofthe Minimum Promium Payable shal be so credited to your Advance Deposit Premium account uns otherwise agr00d by us at our soo dlscretion. (0) A modification in the classification of countries spectod in the Schedule may affect the rate of premium payable on your shipments. When such a modification is notified to you in pursuance of Condition 7, the rate of premium payabie on all your shipments to that country DESPATCHED on or after the date specified in the notice (not being prior to the dato of noification) wil be at such modted rate. {@) When you submit an application to us for approval or enhancement ofthe Oredit Limit on an INSURED BUYER, you shall pay tous such fovs as may be spectod by us Paymont of the premiums and other charges in ‘cordance with paragraph (b,c), (ce) and () of Conon 10's condition precedent to our lab. /0 and rotain whichever is the greater 11, DECLARATION OF TURNOVER {@) You must deciare to usin writing in the format prescribed by us the GROSS INVOICE VALUE of your export tumover {or each ofthe Declaration Periods specttied in the Schedule ‘giving full details ofall the shipments made/ Invoices raised by you during the relevant Declaration Period, (b) Its a condition procedent to our liabilty that completed declarations giving full details of all the shipments DESPATCHED by you during each of the Declaration Periods specified in the Schedule must be submitted to us in our prescribed form after the last day of the relevant Declaration Poriod within such number of days as is specified in the ‘Sohedule, 12, CLAIMS (8) Ifyou make any claim knowing it tobe false oF fraudulent inany way the POLICY will be void and all claims undor it wil be forfeited. In addition you will immediately have to repay any sums that we have previously paid under the POLICY. In such circumstances we shall be entitled to retain all the premiums paid by you under the POLICY. {(b) For a claim to be payable under the POLICY you must ‘submit a claim on our prescribed form, completed in all respects and duly endorsed by your banker, within two years from the DUE DATE of payment of the INSURED DEBT. (©) Any amount payable to you under the POLICY will bo paid to you through your bank that has handled your export documents and undertaken collection ofthe expor proceeds. You must irrevocably authorize your bank to accept such payments on your behalf and you agree that acceptance of payments from us under the POLICY by your banker shall ‘discharge us of our liability to you in respect ot such paymonts, (@) Subject to the provisions of the POLICY we will pay tho Insured Percentage of the INSURED LOSS to you after we have received a claim from you in our form, duly complated in all respects and have ascertained the cause of loss and the amount of foss. We will not be liable to ascertain the cause of loss or the amount of loss ~ () Unti you have submitted all the relevant information and \documents that are necessary in our opinion for the purpose of establishing tho occurrence of INSURED PERIL and for ascertainment of INSURED LOSS; or (lI In the case of PROTRACTED DEFAULT, the INSURED BUYER claims that he is ontitiod 1 withhold payment of al or any part of the INSURED DEBT for any reason whatsoever including but not limited to allegations relating to quality, ‘quantity, et, in respect of your present or past supplies, oF counterclaims or clams for any set-off, ete,, and we are Salistied that a cispute exists between you and the INSURED BUYER which has not been resolved by appropriate legal proceedings. It is clarified that the disputes raised or allegations made by the INSURED BUYER need not necessarily relate to the INSURED DEST. 13. RECOVERIES AND ITS SHARING. (2) After payment of a claim by us, you must take all steps that may be necessary or which we may roquite you to take to effect recoveries whether from the INSURED BUYER or from any other person from whom such recoveries may bo mado, (©) If, with reference to a claim payment, we require you to do any one or more ofthe folowing for the purpose of effecting recoveries, you must do so: () Retr it to 3 debt-collecting agent on such terms as, we may approve; (li) Appoint an advocate, solicitor or attorney to take legal Proceedings against the INSURED BUYER or against his insolvent estate; Ali) Assign and transter tous or to our nominee all your "ights under the relevant contrac for sale, including your right to damages for any breach, (lv) Deliver up to us or to our nominees any goods or documents relating thereto in respect of which a claim payment has been made and assign and transfer to us your right and interest in any such goods and documents; (v) Assign, dolver or otherwise transfer to us or to our nominee any negotiable instruments, guarantees or other ‘securities relating to such goods or contract. (6) All costs and expenses reasonably Incurred by you for tho purpose of effecting recovery of an INSURED DEBT as evidenced by invoices rendered to you by the deot collection agency or solicitors/ attorneys will be a prior charge on the ‘amounts collected or recovered. Your administrative costs will not form a part of such costs and expenses. (2) The amouns recovered ether by you or by us nat of costs ‘and expenses of recovery must be shared between you and Usin the same proportion as the relevant losses were shared, ‘This condition shall apply evan when the amount of our share in the amounts recovered, because of exchange fluctuations cor for any other reason, exceeds any amount previously paid by us to you under the indemnity provisions of this POLICY. You must remit to us our share inal the sums so recovered {forthwith upon ts receipt by you. Until such payments made tous you will be holding such sums in trust for us. 14, COLLECTION AND LEGAL COSTS (2) When we require you to ‘ refer the account of an INSURED BUYER to a debt collection agency, which we may nominato or ‘appoint a solicitor whom we may nominate to take legal proceedings against an INSURED BUYER to obiain payment ‘of any undisputed INDEBTEDNESS, you must do 80. We ‘may not contribute towards collection and legal costs, unless agreed otherwise in writing. In the event we agree to contribute towards your collection and legal cost, our ‘contribution to collection and legal costs relating to the INSURED DEBT wil not exceed the percentage we shall be ‘entitled to as our share if and when the debt is collected or recovered. Where the INDEBTEDNESS of an INSURED BUYER at tho rolovant timo oxcoeds the INSURED DEBT, ‘our contribution will not exceed such percentage share in the proportionate costs tha is apportioned tothe INSURED DEBT. (©) We wil not contribute towards: () Your administrative costs; ot (i) Legal costs incurred for the purpose of establishing BUYER'S liability in respect of any disputed indebiedness; (6) It is a condition precedent to our liability to contribute towards collection and legal costs that you have complied with al the terms and conditions of the POLICY in respect of the INSURED DEBT to which the collection and legal costs rolata, 16. INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS (a) Wo may at any time inspect your documents and records land examine and take copies of any letters, accounts or other ‘documents in your possession or control wHich relate to or are connected with the POLICY ot any transaction bbetwoen you and any INSURED BUYER, (b) If we 80 request, you must supply us with any information in your possession and must also take all reasonable steps to obtain for us any information or the sight of ary documents in the possession of any third party relating to or connected with the POLICY or any transaction between you and an INSURED BUYER, 16. WAITING PERIOD We shall not be liable for any loss until tho expiry ofthe rolovant waiting period which shall not be beyond: (6) In the case of PROTRACTED DEFAULT, four months from the due date of payment: (@) Inthe case INSOLVENCY, four months from the due dato ‘of payment or one month after the occurrence of INSOLVENCY, whichever of the two dates isthe eariior; (6) In the case of CONTRACT REPUDIATION, one month from the date on which the goods have been, brought back fF resold or otherwise disposed of by the insured with our epproval (@) In the case of INCOVERTIBILITY, four months from the ‘due date of payment or from the date of occurrence of the event; (©) In the case SHIPMENT DIVERSION, the date on which proof that is satisfactory to us for the occurrence of loss Is fumished to us; (9 In all other cases, unless otherwige specified by us, four ‘months from the date of occurrence ofthe event which is the ‘cause of the loss. 17. LOCAL CURRENCY DEPOSIT AND APPLICATION FOR ALLOCATION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE {It you experience delays or citficutios in obtaining payment {rom any of the countries included in the Schedule of Counties {due to exchange transfer restrictions you shall require the INSURED BUYER concerned to pay to your account (oF deposi irrevocably with a Bank in the INSURED BUYER’, Country for your account) atthe due date of payment of the INSURED DEBT or as soon as you are aware of such delays or difficulties, the focal currency equivalent of the contract valve of the goods unless we agree otherwise in writing (b) Where we agroe in writing that an INSURED BUYER need ‘not make a local currency deposit, then you shall require the INSURED BUYER concernedito apply tothe relavant authority for approval of the foreign exchange allocation in respect of the INSURED DEBT. 18, OUR LIABILITY ON BUYER RISKS. Our total lability under the POLICY for losses arising ‘out of Buyer Risks on any one INSURED BUYER shall not ‘exceed the amount of Crodit Limit available to you on that INSURED BUYER as on the date of DESPATCH of the relevant shipment 19, THE CREDIT LimiT (2) Where on an application made by you in our preseribed ‘orm, we have approved and communicated to you an amount {as the Credit Limit on an INSURED BUYER, the amount s0 spectied shall be the Credit Limitin respect ofthat INSURED BUYER. A Credit Limit so approved by us shall alvays be ‘subject to the terms and conditions including the terms of payment specitied in or appended to our relovant Credit Limit Approval and will aiso be subject to such modifications as we may make and communicate to you trom time to time Including its cancellation. (©) Where, in respect of an INSURED BUYER you have not made an application for Credit Limit or where against an ‘application made by you we are yet to communicate our decision thereon then you may have the benefit of tho Discrotionary Credit Limit to the extent and subject to the Conditions specified in the Schedule. (©) If, at the time of your application for approval or {enhancement of Credit Limit on an INSURED BUYER or at the time of your receipt of our approval or enhancement thereof, any payment due to you trom that INSURED BUYER, is remaining overduo and unpaid such approval or ‘enhancement of Credit Limit shall be deemed void and inetfectve, 20, MAXIMUM LIABILITY (Our aggregate Maximum Liability for payment claims under the POLICY during the Policy Poriod shall not exceed the amount specified in the Schedule as the Maximum abit 21. CANCELLATION OF THE POLICY ON YOUR, INSOLVENCY Upon your INSOLVENCY or the INSOLVENCY of any pparty named in the Schedule as the INSURED, we may terminate the POLICY with effect from the date of such INSOLVENCY. In the event of such termination by us, we shall be entitled to retain all premiums paid and to receive and retain all premiums due and payable up to and including the effective dato of such INSOLVENCY. 22, LAW AND JURISDICTION The construction, validity and performance of this POLICY and any disputes between you and us shall be interpreted in accordance with and governed in all respects by Indian Law. You agree that no other courts (which expression shall include tribunals and other judicial forums constituted under any special statute) than those either at Mumbai or at the Place of Issue specified in the Schedule shall have jurisdiction over any matter arising out of, ‘concerning or relating o this POLICY. EXCLUSIONS. 41. We shall not be liable for any losses arising out of your ‘exports to a buyer in a Restricted Cover Country uniess ‘# you have obtained our specific approval for cover in respect of those exports; and ‘# you have complied with the special conditions ‘specifid by us for such cover. 2. And we shall not be liablo for any losses arising out of Buyer Risks whore: {(@) Under the contract of export sale, payment of the Invoice value of goods sold by you isto be received under ‘documentary letter of credit (b) The Credit Limit available on a buyer, including Discretionary Credit Limit prior to DESPATCH of goods is NIL, (c) The buyer is one of your subsidiary or associated ‘companies or you have any direct or indirect interest in or ‘connection with the buyer, unless we have agreed otherwise in wating: (4) There is an unresolved dispute between you and the INSURED BUYER unless we have agroed otherwise in wing, 3. And wo shall not be lable for any losses arising out of: (a) DESPATCH of goods to an INSURED BUYER at a time when a debt or any part of a debt owed to you by that buyer is remaining unpaid after Its DUE DATE or after the dae ofthe occurrence of any INSURED PERIL, whichever is the earlier, unless wo have agreed otherwise in writing itany, (b) Your failure oF the failure of any of your agents: including a collecting bank ora carrer of oods to full any of the terms and conditions of or relating to your contract of sale with the INSURED BUYER or of your contract with that nt; (©) Your failuro or the failure of your agents or the: INSURED BUYER to comply with local laws and ragulations ‘unlass provontod trom such compliance by alaw order decree (oF regulation in foree in your country, (@) Failure or inabity of your buyer to obtain any authorty in force as at the dato of DESPATCH and necessary under the regulations of the buyer's country or of the country into which the goods are to be imported to impor the goods and oF to pay for them as contracted and invoiced, (©) Currency fluctuations and/or devaluations including ‘but not limited to any shortfall botweon the INSURED DEBT {and the value ofthe local currency deposit atthe date ofthat

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