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Brief description of the insurance product and contacts

An export buyer credit is a credit extended by a bank to a foreign importer for purchase of goods or services. The bank pays the exporter and the owed amount is then repaid by the foreign importer on a regular schedule stipulated in the credit contract. The recipient of the credit and afterwards the debtor is in some cases the bank of the foreign importer. The maturity of the credit exceeds 2 years. Conditions of insurance are governed by the OECD Arrangement; these rules require a down-payment by the foreign importer of at least of 15 per cent before the credit is extended. EGAP also reserves the right to request from an exporter to submit an environmental impact assessment of the export in the importer’s country. The insured is the bank that is covered against the risk of the non-repayment of the extended export buyer credit on the stipulated schedule.

An insurance loss is a partial or full non-repayment of the insured credit from commercial or political reasons or their combination. Commercial reasons are general inability of an importer to pay for own due obligations (insolvency) or refusal of the payment without any legal reason (protracted default). Among political reasons belong e.g. administrative decisions or legislative measures of the importer's country preventing the importer from payment, or restrictions in conversion of payments as a result of political occurrences in the country of the importer as well as other events in the country of the importer as war, revolution, civil disorders and natural catastrophes.

The amount of insurance premium depends on the volume of export, negotiated payment conditions, on way how payments are secured, assessment of character and risk level of the importer, assessment of risk level of country or territories related to performance of the export contract and on the amount of the self-retention. The negotiated amount of the insurance premium already includes possible increase or decrease of the insurance risk and is unchangeable during the whole duration of insurance.

You can find indicative insurance premium through the interactive calculator.

Jiří Skuhra, Deputy Managing Director
phone: +420 222 842 300
fax:     +420 222 844 130
e-mail: skuhra@egap.cz

Dana Pučelíková, Director of Export Credit Insurance Department
Phone: +420 222 842 314
Fax:     +420 222 844 130
E-mail: pucelikova@egap.cz

Milan Paclt, Head of Sub-Department for Insurance of Political Risks I.
Phone: +420 222 842 311
Fax:     +420 222 844 130
E-mail: paclt@egap.cz

Pavel Němeček, Head of Sub-Department for Insurance of Political Risks II.
Phone: +420 222 842 313
Fax:     +420 222 844 130
E-mail: nemecekpa@egap.cz