documentary collection

Simple is Beautiful; the only thing came in my mind when thought of documentary collection. And I think more and more people are thinking the same in these days. Documentary Collection offers us far greater security than selling on open account; but not as much as a documentary credit. We should therefore be more cautious before starting selling using this method of payment. Documentary Collection Forum is an effort to help you on this way – admin; besttradesolution.com
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narasimha
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documentary collection

Post by narasimha » Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:04 pm

a collection document received by us in the normal course of business on behalf of our clients in India. The invoice is in USD. The payment terms was at sight. Basis the instructions of the beneficiary, we have released the documents to the client against authorisation by debiting the client account.

The beneficiary's account is in UK and their entity name is hotlisted by US authority. While they trade normally in other countries. A payment was initiated by us in USD was blocked by US embargo filtering indicating that the company name is hot listed from US authority side. Though we pleaded that other countries have not hotlisted the client and the payment is getting credited in UK and in UK the client is not hotlisted... the US authority not yielded to our request. In the bargain, the payment that we made was frozen.

How do we go about this case

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picant
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A part....

Post by picant » Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:29 pm

Hi Pal,

it was common in trasferring USD to an UK account to make a payment directly to UK and cover the UK bank in its USD correspondent, in that case, a part that the US Authorities may have a MT400 or MT103 record, the true beneficiary was not disclosed to the US Dept.
Other comments appreciated
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