Export Credits Guarantee Department
Help For Exporters
- Help for Exporters provides contact telephone numbers and email addresses which readers can use to obtain help and advice on both specific and general queries relating to exporting. In addition a frequently asked questions section details some of the more common information requests received by the department. Some of the questions and their responses are also in the form of downloadable PDF documents, which might allow users to carry out research at their leisure.
Cover and Interest Rates
- Cover and Interest Rates section provides guidance on the tiered levels structure of insurance which might be available towards difference regions and countries throughout the world. Details of the maximum credit periods applicable to each are also provided.
Premium Rate Calculator
- Premium Rate Calculator provides prima facie guidelines on the country cover the ECGD might offer the companies exporting overseas. Each individual case would be judged on its specific merits and risk profile. The figures produced by the rate indicators should not be taken as a measure of what might be acceptable to any set of transactions undertaken.
Products and Services
- Products and Services is a range of downloadable documents, each focussing on an area of potential exposure to those exporting abroad. Each of the PDF files concentrates on different kinds of risk, such as political instability or events which the cause the company trading in other country to default on a loan. The section is provided only as basic guidance and it is suggested that supporting information is obtained from contacting the ECGD via email or telephone.
Suggestions for additional resources which could be included in the Export Credits Guarantee Department section should be submitted via the contact us form. A brief description of the website and a URL is required.
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