Recently Decided Cases
DCW maintains a list of recently-decided court cases involving commercial letters of credit, demand guarantees, and other trade finance instruments.
After months of depleting US dollar reserves and denial of importers’ LCs amid the country’s dire foreign currency crisis, some Sri Lankan banks have managed to honour LCs.
Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy Minister has sought Cabinet approval for emergency purchases of coal, but importers have been informed by People’s Bank that it is not possible to open LCs.
According Reuters reporting, a Sri Lankan government official has affirmed that the country has purchased two cargoes of 60,000
As the country’s foreign exchange shortage worsens, regular suppliers of imports who previously extended credit terms are now insisting on confirmed LCs.
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