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Pre-Shipment Credit in Foreign Currency — concessional rate pre-export finance from Indian banks in foreign currency (USD, EUR).

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Pre-shipment credit in foreign currency: export packing credit drawn in a foreign currency rather than the exporter’s home currency, to fund the purchase of inputs, processing and packing before shipment. The point is that the borrowing and the expected export receipt are denominated the same way, so the loan is typically liquidated out of the export proceeds and the exporter is not left with a mismatch between what it owes and what it will be paid — a natural hedge, and usually cheaper than home-currency working capital because it is priced off an international benchmark. Eligibility, permitted end-uses, maximum tenor, treatment where shipment fails and the pricing margin come from the lending regulator’s framework and the bank’s own facility terms.
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From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).

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