1. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 Chapter Ⅶ L/C Establishment,Extension and Amendment

2. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院  Sentence Patterns  1. Choice of Terms of Payment  1)payment by L/C 用信用证付款  We adopt payment by L/C. 我们采用信用证付款方式。  2)Under (on) … terms 按 …… 方式  We regret that we are unable to consider your request for payment under D/A terms.  对你方要求以承兑交单方式付款一事，我们歉难考虑。  We wish you could supply us in future on 60 days D/A terms.  我们希望你方能按 60 天期承兑交单方式向我方供货。  3)on … basis 按 …… 方式  We are prepared to accept payment for your trial order on D/P basis.  对你方这批试订购的货物，我们准备接受付款交单方式付款。

3. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院.  4)to make an exception (or: as an exceptional case) 破例  In view of our long business relation, we will make an exception to our rules and accept L/C at 30 days (after) sight.  As an exceptional case, we accept payment for your initial order on D/A basis.  5)as a special accommodation 作为特殊照顾  As a special accommodation, we agree to your proposal and accept payment by D/P at sight, but this should not be regarded as a precedent.  作为特殊照顾，我们同意你方建议接受即期付款交单，但 是这不应视为先例。  In order to pave the way for your pushing the sale for our products in your market, we agree to payment for this transaction under D/A terms.

4. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院.  6)to be applicable  D/P is applicable only if the amount involved for each transaction is less than $1,000.  D/A payment is not applicable to your case.  7)to remit … by  In order to save a lot of expenses on opening the letter of credit, we will remit you the full amount by T/T when the goods purchased by us are ready for shipment and the freight space is booked.

5. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院  2. Urging establishment of L/C  1)to expedite (rush) an L/C  Please expedite the L/C so that we may execute the order smoothly.  As the goods have been ready, please rush the L/C covering S/C AC – 1301.  2)to enable sb.to effect shipment 使某人能发货  The shipment date is approaching. It would be advisable for you to open the L/C covering your order No.751 as early as possible so as to enable us to effect shipment within the stipulated time limit.  3)to confirm to … 与 …… 相一致  Please see to it that the L/C stipulation conform strictly to the terms of the contract so as avoid subsequent amendment.  4)to cancel (rescind) a contract 取消合同  The goods are ready for despatch. Please do your utmost to expedite the L/C, or we can but rescind the order and ask you to refund to us the storage charges we have paid on your behalf.

6. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院  1. Establishment of L/C  1)to arrange to open an L/C 安排开立信用证  We enclose an application form for documentary credit and shall be glad if you will arrange to open for our account an irrevocable letter of credit for $40,000 in favor of ABC company, the credit to be valid until June 15.  兹附寄跟单信用证申请表一份，请开立以 ABC 公司为受益 人，金额为 4 万美元的不可撤销之信用证，有效期至 6 月 15 日 止，由我方付款。  2)to establish (open) an L/C through … bank  通过 …… 银行开立信用证  We write to inform you that we have today established with Chemical Bank an irrevocable documentary L/C in your favor for the amount of $52,000 covering 1,000 sets of TV.

7. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院.  3)to be confirmed by 由 …… 保兑  This L/C will be confirmed by the First Commercial Bank and they will accept draft on them at sixty days after sight for the amount of your invoice.  4)to draw (a draft) on sb.  向某人开立汇票  You have authority to draw a 60 days ’ draft on our bank against this credit for the amount of your invoice.  You are authorized to draw on us at 30 days ’ against this credit for the amount of your invoice after shipment is made.  5)to be accompanied by … 附有 ……  Your draft must be accompanied by the following documents.

8. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院  2. Amendment of L/C  1)to find discrepancy 发现差异  We have received your L/C No 531 and on checking up the clauses, have found the following discrepancies in it.  2)to make amendment 修改  Please instruct your bank to make the necessary amendments of the L/C.  3)to amend … as 将 …… 改为  Please amend the L/C as allowing partial shipments.  4)to amend … (so as)to read 将 …… 改为  Please amend the amount of the L/C to read ” 2% more or less ”  5)to increase (reduce) … to 将 …… 增加（减少）到 ……  We have found that the amount of your L/C is insufficient. Please increase the unit price from $3 to $3.5 and total amount to $70,000.  6)to delete (insert) 删去（加上）  Please delete the clause “ by direct steamer ” and insert the wording “ Transshipment and partial shipment are allowed ”.

9. 厦 门 城 市 职 业 学 院 经 济 管 理 学 院  3. Extension of L/C  1)to extend … to …  Please extend by cable the shipment date and the validity of your L/C to 15 May and 1 June respectively, thus enabling us to effect shipment of the goods.  2)to ask extension of 要求延长  We are cabling you today asking for a two week extension of the L/C covering your order No.731 for 300 cases frozen chicken.  3)to have sth. extended until 将 …… 延至  Please have the L/C No.419 extended until 4 June so that we may make shipment without fail.

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