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09 March, 2022

Discuss the various types of post-shipment import finance provided by the banks

1. Loan against Trust Receipt (LTR): LTR may provide when the documents covering an import shipment are given without payment. Importer will hold the goods of their sale proceeds in trust for the bank; until the loan allowed against the Trust Receipt is fully paid for a period of 30 to 180 days depends on nature

& amount of imported goods.

2. Payment against Documents (PAD): It is a post-import finance to settle the properly drawn import bills received by the bank in case adequate fund is not available in client’s account.

3. Loan against Imported Merchandise (LIM): It may be allowed on pledge of goods, retaining margin 'prescribed on their landed cost, depending of their categories. The Bank obtains a letter of undertaking and indemnity from the parties, before getting the goods cleared through LIM account. LIM may be created in two ways:


a) LIM on importer's request: In some cases the importer can’t able to retire the bill by his own source of fund, he may request the bank to clear the goods by creating LIM Account.

b) Forced LIM: In some cases importer do not come forward to retire the goods. In these cases the bank themselves arrange to retire the goods by pledge in Godown under bank’s lock & key. This type of payment is called forced LIM.