Definition of Import credit

1. Noun. Credit opened by an importer at a bank in his own country upon which an exporter may draw.

Generic synonyms: Credit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Import Credit

imponed
imponent
imponents
impones
imponing
impoofo
impoofoo
impoon
impoons
impoor
impoored
imporosity
imporous
import
import barrier
import credit (current term)
import duty
importable
importance
importances
importancies
importancy
important
important-looking
important person
importantly
importantness
importation
importations
imported

Literary usage of Import credit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trading with the Far East: How to Sell in the Orient : Policies, Methods by Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Company (1920)
"When someone desires to open an import credit in a foreign currency, the initial procedure is similar to that for one in dollars. The bank gives two copies ..."

2. Banking Practice: A Textbook for Colleges and Schools of Business Administration by Loyd Helvetius Langston, Nathan Ruggles Whitney (1921)
"The Process of Granting an import credit.—The handling of import commercial credits includes such operations as: Passing upon the credit rating of the ..."

3. Practical Bank Operation by Loyd Helvetius Langston, First National City Bank of New York (1921)
"Operation of import credit The method of procedure under a credit can be explained most clearly by outlining the method of financing a shipment under a ..."

4. Foreign Exchange: Theory and Practice by Thomas York (1920)
"Sterling import credit.—Having discussed long commercial bills, as pertaining to the sterling export credit, the medium used in financing a large part of ..."

5. Export Credit Financing Systems in Oecd Member and Non-Member Countries by OECD Staff, OECD, Daiana Cipollone (2001)
"For amounts between NLG 10 million and S NLG 25 million, the Export and Import Credit Guarantees Department of the central bank can approve the reinsurance ..."

6. Trading with Latin America: Obtaining Orders, Filling Orders, Shipping by Ernst B. Filsinger (1917)
"The import credit is exactly the reverse of an Export Credit and may be arranged for the purpose of effecting payment for merchandise imported into the ..."

7. American Banking Practice: A Treatise on the Practical Operation of a Bank by William Henry Kniffin (1921)
"Reimbursing the bank for these outlays.1 As in an import credit the New York bank advises the foreign bank that a credit has been opened, so in an export ..."

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