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Documents against acceptance (D/A)

Collection terms of payment that require the drawee to accept a draft or drafts drawn for future maturity at the presenting bank prior to receiving the accompanying documents. Typically, such collections include a document that restricts possession or ownership, thereby…

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Documents against payment (D/P)

Collection terms of payment that require the drawee to pay a draft prior to receiving the accompanying documents. Typically, such collections include a document that restricts possession or ownership, thereby forcing the drawee to honour the draft in order to…

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Doing Business Project

The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies. This report,  launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. By gathering and analysing…

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Domicile

1. A place of permanent residence. 2. In banking, the place where a draft or acceptance is made payable. See bill of exchange.

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Door-to-airport

A contract carriage whereby a single carrier undertakes transportation responsibility from the point where the shipment originates (usually the seller´s door) to a designated airport on the buyer´s side. Unless the seller is physically located at an airport, door-to-airport transportation…

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