export credit Meaning of "export credit"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a credit opened by an importer with a bank in an exporter's country to finance an export operation

Usage(s):

  1. One reason that the West has held off this long is the Berne Union, a gentleman's agreement among trade insurers of 20 industrial nations not to extend export credit on terms .
  2. As late as last month the Bonn government agreed to give the company another injection of funds, in the form of export credit guarantees, bank loan write-offs and new bank .
  3. At the time, DTI Minister Tony Newton said the government was nearly doubling the export credit line because of the ministry's confidence in the "long-term strength of the Iraqi .
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