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 F.E. Circular No. 05
March 18, 1997 

All Authorized Dealers
In Foreign Exchange,

Dear Sirs,

EXPORTS TO ACU MEMBER COUNTRIES – PAYMENTS TO THE EXPORTERS

At present different Authorized Dealers have adopted different methods for making payments to the exporters in Pakistan exporting goods to the buyers in the ACU member countries. It has since been decided that in future, uniform method will be followed by all the Authorized Dealers which is given hereunder:-

  1. Where the negotiating bank maintains the ACU Dollar account of the L/C-opening bank, it will debit the relative ACU Dollar account, will take that U.S. Dollar amount in its normal US$ Nostro accounts, will pay rupee equivalent to the exporters at the Authorized Dealers’ T.T. clean buying rate prevailing on the date of payment and will report the transaction to the State Bank of Pakistan on Schedule A/1 or A/2 as the case may be.

  2. Where the negotiating bank does not maintain the ACU Dollar account of the L/C-opening bank, it will negotiate the documents and lodge claim with the reimbursing bank which in turn will debit the ACU Dollar account of the L/c-opening bank, deliver the amount involved in U.S.Dollar to the negotiating bank which will take the relative amount in its normal U.S.$ Nostro account, will pay rupee equivalent to the exporters at the Authorized Dealers’ T.T. clean buying rate obtaining on the date of payment and will report the transaction to State Bank of Pakistan on Schedule A/1 or A/2 as the case may be.

 


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