This document summarizes key questions and answers about contract delivery terms. It addresses important considerations like location of delivery, transportation, risk and ownership transfer, delivery dates, delays, liquidated damages vs penalties, and bill of lading requirements when using letters of credit. Location determines responsibilities and payment dates. Transportation involves cost, type, and modes like sea, air, inland. Risk often transfers and ownership can transfer between contract signature and payment. Delivery dates trigger exporter duties and buyer payment/risk/ownership. Delays can be excusable or not. Liquidated damages compensate fairly for delays while penalties are unenforceable. Bills of lading are used for delivery, title transfer, and merchandise receipt when payment is by letter of credit
This document summarizes key questions and answers about contract delivery terms. It addresses important considerations like location of delivery, transportation, risk and ownership transfer, delivery dates, delays, liquidated damages vs penalties, and bill of lading requirements when using letters of credit. Location determines responsibilities and payment dates. Transportation involves cost, type, and modes like sea, air, inland. Risk often transfers and ownership can transfer between contract signature and payment. Delivery dates trigger exporter duties and buyer payment/risk/ownership. Delays can be excusable or not. Liquidated damages compensate fairly for delays while penalties are unenforceable. Bills of lading are used for delivery, title transfer, and merchandise receipt when payment is by letter of credit
This document summarizes key questions and answers about contract delivery terms. It addresses important considerations like location of delivery, transportation, risk and ownership transfer, delivery dates, delays, liquidated damages vs penalties, and bill of lading requirements when using letters of credit. Location determines responsibilities and payment dates. Transportation involves cost, type, and modes like sea, air, inland. Risk often transfers and ownership can transfer between contract signature and payment. Delivery dates trigger exporter duties and buyer payment/risk/ownership. Delays can be excusable or not. Liquidated damages compensate fairly for delays while penalties are unenforceable. Bills of lading are used for delivery, title transfer, and merchandise receipt when payment is by letter of credit
This document summarizes key questions and answers about contract delivery terms. It addresses important considerations like location of delivery, transportation, risk and ownership transfer, delivery dates, delays, liquidated damages vs penalties, and bill of lading requirements when using letters of credit. Location determines responsibilities and payment dates. Transportation involves cost, type, and modes like sea, air, inland. Risk often transfers and ownership can transfer between contract signature and payment. Delivery dates trigger exporter duties and buyer payment/risk/ownership. Delays can be excusable or not. Liquidated damages compensate fairly for delays while penalties are unenforceable. Bills of lading are used for delivery, title transfer, and merchandise receipt when payment is by letter of credit
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CONTRACT Q& A- CHAPTER 1
1. What are 5 steps in negotiating delivery?
Timing, location, method of transportation, transfer of risk and title, incoterm 2. Why is location important? - Risk and Responsibilities. - Date of payment depends on place of delivery. (It is important to the exporter because the date of payment, transfer of risk and ownership depend on the place of delivery.) 3. Why is transportation important? Cost Appropriate type (Because we have to find the appropriate cost and type of transport, have to think of freight, try to minimize the freight and try to find the best mode of transport. ) 4. What are modes of transportation? Sea transport Air transport Inland transport (by road, by rail, by barge, by mail, or by mixture) 5. Where is risk often passed from the exporter to the importer? At the point of delivery 6. Where does transfer of ownership take place? Any point between signature of contract and final payment for goods 7. How many kinds of delay in delivery? Excusable delay Non- excusable delay 8. What events does delivery date trigger? Exporter fulfills duties under the contract. Payment may become due. Risk of and title to the goods pass to the buyer. 9. How to fix delivery date? To use a straightforward calendar date. A certain days after the date of coming into force of the contract. 10. When is a contract binding? After the signature date 11. When is a contract binding and effective? After the date of coming into force 12. How does the date of coming into force the delivery date? The delivery date is normally fixed for a certain days after the date of coming into force. 13. What is excused delay? - In the grace period - Due to FM 14. What are the 3 outcomes of FM? - Resumption of delivery - Termination of contract - Unclear and dangerous situation. 15. What are liquidated damages? Normally the exporter and the buyer agree a fair figure, a lump sum to be paid per day (week or month) of late delivery. The Compensation fixed in advance is called liquidated damages. 16. What are penalties? Damages are paid to compensate one party for a loss. 17. Explain the differences between liquidated damages and penalties - LD: Purpose: To compensate the buyer fairly for any delay in delivery Enforceable everywhere - Penalties: Purpose: To terrorize the exporter into punctual delivery Not enforceable in English law or other common law systems 18. Name types of Insurance policy? - Floating policy - Open cover (Valued policy - Unvalued policy - Time policy - Voyage policy - Time and voyage policy) 19. What are main functions of ocean BL? - Contract for delivery - Convey title to the goods - Receipt of the merchandise 20. What are requirement of BL when payment is made by LC? - Clean, shipped on board - To order shipper - Blank Endorsed
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