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Terms of Letter of Credit and Standard for Examination of Documents (신용장조건(信用狀條件)과 서류심사(書類審査)의 기준(基準) 검토(檢討))

  • Kang, Won-Jin
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.13
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    • pp.495-513
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, I examined the terms of letter of credit and standard for examination of documents. In connection with the test of standard, I reviewed the bank's reasonable care, inconsistence and linkage between documents, non-documentary conditions and the treatment of discrepant documents. Traditionally credit law is founded on two principles such as the standards of strict of compliance and substantial compliance, but these standards are not consistency. Moreover although the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits(UCP) introduces a new standard for examination of documents by incorporating international banking practice, the standards for documentary compliance have created ambiguity. Accordingly, I suggest that the standard requires strict compliance between party concerned in letter of credit transactions but only requires international standard banking practice in customer relationship. Therefore the standard and the specific guideline should be prescribed in the next version of the UCP.

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A Study on the Changes of the Basic Principles for the Examination of Documents and of Transport Document Related Articles under UCP600 (UCP 600의 서류심사기준(書類審査基準)의 기본원칙(基本原則)과 운송서류관련조항(運送書類關聯條項)의 변경내용(變更內容)에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Won-Suk;Seo, Kyeong
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.43
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    • pp.117-142
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine the basic principles for the examination of documents in terms of the basic duty to examine the documents, the time allowed to the banks to examine the documents, linkage among the documents, the originality of documents and their issuers, and the rejection formula of documents. Further this author would look at the changes of particular transport document including bill of lading, charter-party bill of lading and so on. From the seller's perspective, the changes of the principles and individual documents under UCP600 are the most important in the sense that they affect the criteria against which the payment is made. The major changes include the omission of the phrase "with reasonable care", in terms of the basic examination principles, substitute the phrase "five banking days following the day of presentation" for the phrase "reasonable time, not to exceed seven banking days following the days of receipt of documents", introduce the new wording about the linkage between the documents tendered, and make clear the meaning of the originality of documents as well as the rejection formula. For transport documents, even though dealing with bill of lading, charter-party bill of lading, transport document covering at least two different modes of transport, freight-forwarder bill of lading and freight collect transport documents, this paper focuses on the "transhipment" of bill of lading and the definition of charter-party bill of lading. Thus, UCP has been changed several times to reflect the new banking customs and practice. It, however, would not answer every questions which users and banks will raise. These questions may be best answered in the particular underlying contract. The UCP are necessary but not a sufficient instrument for the smooth operation of an international trade transaction. The rules are now out: it remains to be seen what the players do with it.

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A Case Study on Complying Requirements of the Description of the Goods in Documentary Credit Transactions (화환신용장거래에서 물품명세의 일치성요건에 관한 사례연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Chill
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.239-261
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    • 2008
  • Documentary credit transactions are judged by the principle of strict compliance. The compliance of the tendered documents with the credit's teams ensures the proper completion of the underlying transaction. But if the documents tendered by beneficiary differ, a discrepancy of documents occurs. Such a discrepancy raises difficult problems for the bank to which the documents are tendered. It has to decide whether to reject or accept them or to accept them under a protective mechanism. Therefore, this study is to examine the case study of complying presentation of the description of the goods in documentary credit through the Korean Supreme Court Cases. The objectives of this paper are as follow : 1. To examine two point of views on document compliance such as strict compliance and substantial compliance. 2. To analyze Korean Case Law which challenges the legal conclusions, standard for examination of documents and New ISBP. 3. To draw out the criterion for conformity and discrepancy of description in invoices and WC and to provide the guidelines for determining the nature and extent of an issuing bank's duty of documentary compliance. 4. Finally to suggest some implications through the Korean case law. By using the examination standards for description of goods suggested in Korean Case Law and New ISBP, the traders will be able to prepare documentation more perfectly and document checkers will be able to examine the negotiation documents more easily.

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Case Sudies on Nonperformance of Obligaion by the Issuing Bank of Letter of Credit (신용장발행은행(信用狀發行銀行)의 의무불이행(義務不履行)에 관한 분쟁사례연구(紛爭事例硏究))

  • Kang, Won Jin;Lee, Sang Hun
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.233-263
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    • 1999
  • The issuing bank performs an important role than any other parties concerned in letter of credit transaction. Nonperformance of obligation by the issuing bank frustrates whole letter of credit transaction and makes serious effect on both beneficiary and applicant. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the nonperformance of obligation by the issuing bank and to present some problems and countermeasures. For this purpose, the author examines five kinds of cases on nonperformance of obligation by the issuing bank ; improper honor relating to examination of documents, improper honor not relating to examination of documents, improper dishonor relating to examination of documents, improper dishonor relating to handling procedure of documents, and improper dishonor not relevant to letter of credit transaction.

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A Study on General Principles of the ICC Publication No.645(International Standard Banking Practice) (국제상업회의소 발간물 제645호(국제표준은행관습)에 관한 일고(一考))

  • Kim, Young-Hoon
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.22
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    • pp.3-48
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    • 2004
  • Many presentations of documents are rejected because credits have been incorrectly issued. One reason of rejecting the documents is related with error in application stage of L/C. Errors may take the form of mismatches between the terms of the sales contract and the provisions stipulated in the credit. Thus, Article 5 encourages applicants to make their contribution to the smooth running of the letter of credit process by being unambiguous and brief. Another reason that the banks reject the documents relates to the ambiguity of the term "International Standard Banking Practice" That is to say, UCP500 Art.13 introduced the term "International Standard Banking Practice"(ISBP) without the definition so that one wonder what ISBP is or how ISBP apply in daily work of bankers, examination of documents. From hence, International Chamber of Commerce(ICC) started the work to document ISBP at May 2000, finally approved the result last year and published the publication titled "International Standard Banking Practice for the examination of documents under documentary credits." By applying ISBP in document examination stage, I expect that the freqency of rejecting the documents grow less and bankers' work of examination become easy. On the other hand, ISBP is supplement to UCP500 so that the interpretation of ISBP is made on the basis of understanding of UCP and its underlying principles. So, I reviewed each paragraphs of ISBP on this basis and tried to indicate contradiction between ISBP and UCP500. But because of reading not enough, I failed to search the connotative sense many paragraphs have.

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The Applicant's Liability of Examination of Document and Notification of the Discrepancies in Credit Transaction (신용장거래에 있어서 개설의뢰인의 서류심사 및 통지의무)

  • Park, Kyu-Young
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.105-121
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    • 2006
  • This study is related with the judgements of our country's supremcourt against the transaction of Letter of Credit which is beneficiary's fraudulent trade deal. In this case I think to analyse the judgements and to present the basic grounds on which the judgements were established. In Letter of Credit transaction, there are the major parties, such as, beneficiary, issuing bank, or confirming bank and the other parties such as applicant, negotiating bank, advising bank and paying bank. Therefore, in this cases, the beneficiary, the French Weapons' Supplier who did not shipped the commodities, created the false Bill of Lading, let his dealing bank make payment against the documents presented by him and received the proceeds from the negotiating bank or collecting bank, thereafter was bankrupted and escaped. For the first time, even though the issuing bank conceived that the presented documents were inconsistent with the terms of L/C. it did not received the payment approval from the applicant against all the discrepancies, made the negotiating bank pay the proceeds to exporter and thereafter, delivered the documents to the applicant long after the time of the issuing bank's examination of documents. The applicant who received the documents from the issuing bank, instantly did not examine the documents and inform to the issuing bank whether he accepted the documents or not. Long time after, applicant tried to clear the goods through custom when he knew the bill of ladings were false and founded out the documents had the other discrepancies which he did not approved. As the results, the applicant, Korea Army Transportation Command claimed, that the issuing bank must refund his paid amount because issuing bank examined the documents unreasonably according to u.c.p 500 Act 13th, 14th. In spite of the applicant's claim, the issuing bank argued that it paid the proceeds of L/C reasonably after receiving the applicant's approval of an discrepancy of document, the delayed shipment, but for concerning the other discrepancies, the trivial ones, the applicant did not examined the document and noticed the discrepancies in reasonable time. Therefore the applicant sued the issuing bank for refunding it's paid proceeds of L/C. Originally, this cases were risen between Korea Exchange Bank and Korea Army Transportation Command. As result of analysing the case, the contents of the case case have had same procedure actually, but the lower courts, the district and high courts all judged the issuing bank was reasonable and did not make an error. As analysing these supreme court's judgements, the problem is that whether there are the applicant's liability of examining the documents and informing its discrepancies to the issuing bank or not, and if the applicant broke such a liabilities, it lost the right of claiming the repayment from issuing bank. Finally to say, such applicant's liabilities only must be existed in case the documents arrived to the issuing bank was delivered to the applicant within the time of the documents examination according to u.c.p 500 Act 14, d. i. But if any the documents were delivered to applicant after time of the documents examination, the applicant had not such liabilities because eventhough after those time the applicant would have informed to the issuing bank the discrepancies of documents, the issuing bank couldn't receive repayment of its paid proceeds of document from the negotiating bank. In the result after time of issuing bank's examination of documents, it is considered that there's no actual benefit to ask the applicant practice it's liability. Therefore finally to say. I concluded that the Suprem Court's judgement was much more reasonable. In the following, the judgements of the supreme court would be analysed more concretely, the basic reasons of the results be explained and the way of protecting such L/C transaction would be presented.

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A Study on the Examination Criteria and Case Study of Certificate of Origin in ISBP 745 (ISBP 745에서 원산지증명서의 심사기준과 사례분석)

  • Jeon, Soon-Hwan
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.203-221
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    • 2014
  • ICC Banking Commission have approved the new version of ISBP for UCP 600(Publication 745) on April 17, 2013. This is called the ISBP 745. This revised version of ISBP includes a lot of shipping documents including bill of exchange. These shipping documents stated in the ISBP 745, especially the certificate of origin is the document necessary for carrying out the customs formalities in FTA era. Particularly, practitioners such as bankers, buyers and sellers, lawyers, freight forwarders and carriers in import and export transactions have to know the UCP 600 and ISBP 745 (2013) thoroughly in order to avoid the disputes due to discrepancies of the documents with the terms and conditions of the credit. The purpose of this article is to reduce the disputes occurred in the credit transaction by providing the examination criteria and case study of the certificate of origin in ISBP 745.

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Examination Criteria on the Compliance of Multimodal Transport Document in the ISBP (ISBP상의 복합운송서류의 일치성에 관한 심사기준)

  • Jeon, Soon-Hwan
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.219-243
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    • 2005
  • The Purpose of this Article is to analyze the examination criteria on the compliance of multimodal transport document in the ISBP. When the goods are taken in charge by the multimodal transport operator, he shall issue a multimodal transport document which, at the option of the consignor, shall be in either negotiable or non-negotiable form. The multimodal transport document shall be signed by the multimodal transport operator or by a person having authority from him. When the multimodal transport document is presented by the beneficiary to the bank in the letter of credit operations, the bank should examinate the bill of exchange and/or shipping documents, including multimodal transport document. There are two rules in connection with examination of the documents in the letter of credit operations. One is the "Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits(UCP 500)" approved by the Banking Commission in March 10, 1993, the other is the "International Standard Banking Practice for the Examination of Documents under Documentary Letters of Credits(ISBP)" approved by the ICC Banking Commission in October 2002. Therefore, this Article has studied the multimodal transport document presented under documentary credits on the basis of the UCP 500 and the ISBP it reflects.

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Compliance Criteria for Documents of the Letter of Credit : Focused on the Precedents of Korean Supreme Court (신용장 서류심사의 일치성 판단기준: 우리나라 대법원 판례를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sangjo;Lee, Jaedal
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.255-275
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of the study is to examine compliance criteria for documents of the Letter of Credit(L/C) by the Korean Supreme Court in practical use. The judgement criteria of the court in documents' examination is supported by the doctrine of strict compliance. And, in examination of documents by the Supreme Court, the difference between documents presented and the credit should be followed by the allowance of international standard banking practices. In this case, the Supreme Court makes a reference for ICC's opinion or decision proposed as the international standard banking practices, or otherwise admit by exploring the practices. However, when documents reviewing by the bankers' auditors, it is very difficult for them to judge in a short time due to the lack of high level of knowledges and insights. As shown the cases of this study, the doctrine of strict compliance of an L/C be relaxed, and most of the recent precedents be ruled by the exception of the doctrine. Because, therefore, it is difficult for to documents reviewers of bank to judge these consistencies, conducting arbitrary document review will be inevitable. As a result, it will be difficult for banks and applicants to ensure the strictness of the documents, and free use of L/Cs in international transactions will be avoided. Finally, the expanded usage of the electronic negotiation system that simplifies the highly difficult compliance criteria to ensure the strictness of documents will be needed, and not only be eradicated the acts of arbitrary documents examination practices, but also be promoted the freely usage of L/Cs.

A Study on Practical Suggestion about Seller' Documents in International Sales contract of Goods - Focused on Bill of Lading - (국제물품매매계약에서 매도인의 서류제공 의무에 따른 실무상 유의점 - 선하증권을 중심으로 -)

  • Yoon, Dong-Hee;Kim, Jae-Seong;Park, Se-Hun
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.47
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    • pp.49-78
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    • 2010
  • The seller has to deliver goods and hand over documents as required by the contract. It is very important that ownership of goods shall be transferred by the documents from the seller to the buyer. Where terms of payments is made under documentary payment such as negotiable order Bill of lading or any transport documents for symbolic delivery of goods shall be more important between the parties concerned. The buyer may withdraw or cancel the contract where the buyer accept the foul Bill of Lading and demand damages where the buyer accept the other documents which are not in accordance with requirements by the buyer. Withdraw or cancel of contract can be made where discrepancy of documents comes into fundamental breach of contract. In conclusion transport documents by the seller will be used to determine appropriation of transport document to the contract. Therefore the seller has to deliver the proper shipping documents to the buyer. Where the breach of the seller's obligations to deliver documents the buyer has the right of requiring performance, contract avoided, claiming damage to recover the contract under CISG. The significance of transport documents has been focused in this study and careful examination of documents shall be needed to prevent any dispute or differences between the parties.

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