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(ICC Uniform Rules for Collections ，ICC Publication No. 522 )

ICC Uniform Rules for Collections
ICC Publication No. 522
1995 Revision in force as of January 1, 1996

CONTENT
A. General Provisions and Definitions
Application of URC 522
Definition of Collection
Parties to a Collection

B. Form and Structure of Collections

C.Form of Presentation
Presentation
Sight/Acceptance
Release of Commercial Documents
Documents Against Acception (D/A) vs Documents Against Payment (D/P)
Creation of Documents

D.Liabilities and Responsibilities
Good Faith and Reasonable Care
Documents vs. Goods/Services/Performances
Disclaimer for Acts of an Instructed Party
Disclaimer on Documents Received
Disclaimer on Effectiveness of Documents
Disclaimer on Delays,Loss in Transit and Translation
Force Majeure

E. Payment
Payment Without Delay
Payment in Local Currency
Payment in Foreign Currency
Partial Payment

F.Interest,Charges and Expenses
Interest
Charges and Expenses

G. Other Provisions
Acceptance
Promissory Notes and other Instructions
Protest
Case-of-Need
Advices

A. General Provisions and Definitions

Article 1
Application of URC 522
a. The Uniform Rules for Collections, 1995 Revision, ICC Publication No.522, shall apply to all collections as defined in Article 2 where such rules are incorporated into the text of the “collection instruction” referred to in Article 4 and are binding on all parties thereto unless otherwise expressly agreed or contrary to the provisions of a national,state or local law and/or regulation which cannot be departed from.
b. Banks shall have no obligation to handle either a collection or any collection instruction or subsequent related instructions.
c. If a bank elects, for any reason, not to handle a collection or any related instructions received by it, it must advise the party from whom it received the collection or the instructions by telecommunication or, if that is not possible, by other expeditious means, without delay.

Article 2
Definition of Collection
For the purposes of these Articles:
a.“Collection”means the handling by banks of documents as defined in sub-Article 2 (b), in accordance received, in order to:
I. obtain payment and/or acceptance, or
II. deliver documents against payment and/or against acceptance,or
III. deliver documents on other terms and conditions.

b.“Documents”means financial documents and/or commercial documents:
I. “Financial documents”means bills of exchange,promissory notes, cheques, or other similar instruments used for obtaining the payment of money;
II. “Commercial documents” means invoice,transport documents,documents of title or other similar documents,or any other documents whatsoever, not being financial documents.

c.”Clean collection” means collection of financial documents not accompanied by commercial documents.

d.”Documentary collection”means collection of:
I. financial documents accompanied by commercial documents;
II.Commercial documents not accompanied by financial documents.

Article 3
a. For the purposes of these Articles the “parties thereto” are:
I. the “principal” who is the party entrusting the handling of a collection to a bank;
II. the “remitting bank” which is the bank to which the principal has entrusted the handling of a collection;
III. “collecting bank” which is any bank,other than the remitting bank, involved in processing the collection;
IV. the “presenting bank” which is the collecting bank making presentation to the drawee.

b. The “drawee” is the one to whom presentation is to be made in accordance with the collection instruction.

B．Form and Structure of Collections

Article 4
Collection Instruction
A i. All documents sent for collection must be accompanied by a collection instruction indicating that the collection is subject to URC522 and giving complete and precise instructions. Banks are only permitted to act upon the instructions given in such collection instruction,and in accordance with these Rules.
ii. Banks will not examine documents in order to obtain instructions.
iii. Unless otherwise authorized in the collection instruction, banks will disregard any instructions from any party/bank other than the party/bank from whom they received the collections.
B A collection instruction should contain the following items of information,as appropriate.
i. Details of the bank from which the collection was received including full namepostal and SWIFT addresses,telex,telephone,facsimile numbers and referece.
ii. Details of the principal including full name, postal address,and if applicable telex,telephone and facsimile numbers.
iii. Details of the drawee including full name,postal address,or the domicile at which presentation is to be made and if applicable telex, telephone and facsimile numbers.
iv. Details of the presenting bank,if any,including full name,postal address,and if applicable telex, telephone and facsimile numbers.
v. Amount(s) and currency(ies) to be collected.
vi. List of documents enclosed and the numerial count of each document.
vii. a) Terms and conditions upon which payment and/or acceptance is to be obtained.
b) Terms of delivery of documents against:
1) payment and/or acceptance
2)other terms and conditions
It is the responsibility of the party preparing the collection instruction to ensure that the terms for the delivery of documents are clearly and unambiguously stated, otherwise banks will not be responsible for any consequences arising therefrom.
viii. Charges to be collected, indicating whether they may be waived or not.
ix. Interest to be collected, if applicable, indicating whether it may be waived or not, including:
a) rate of interest
b) interest period
c) basis of calculation (for example 360 or 365 days in year) as applicable.
x. Method of payment and form of payment advice.
xi. Instrucitons in case of non-payment, non-acceptance and/or non-compliance with other instructions.
i. Collection instructions should bear the complete address of the drawee or of the domicile at which the presentation is to be made. If the address is incomplete or incorrect, the collecting bank may, without any liability and responsibility on its part, endeavour to ascertain the proper address.
ii. The collecting bank will not be liable or responsible for any ensuing delay as a result of an incomplete.incorrect address being provided.

B. Form of Presentation

Article 5
Presentation
a. For the purposes of these Articles, presentation is the procedure whereby the presenting bank makes the documents available to the drawee as instructed.
b. The collection instruction should state the exact period of time within which any action is to be taken by the drawee.
Expressions such as “first”, “prompt”,”immediate”, and the like should not be used in connection with presentation or with reference to any period of time within which documents have to be taken up or for any other action that is to be taken by the drawee. If such terms are used banks will disregard them.
c. Documents are to be presented to the drawee in the form in which they are received, except that banks are authorized to affix any necessary stamps, at the expense of the party from whom they received the collection unless otherwise instructed, and to make any necessary endorsements or place any rubber stamps or other identifying marks or symbols customary to or required for the collection operation.
d. For the purpose of giving effect to the instructions of the principal, the remitting bank will utilize the bank nominated by the principal as the collecting bank. In the absence of such nomination, the remitting bank will utilize any bank of its own, or another bank’s choice in the country of payment or acceptance or in the country where other terms and conditions have to be complied with.
e. The documents and collection instruction may be sent directly by the remitting bank to the collecting bank or through another bank as intermediary.
f. If the remitting bank does not nominate a specific presenting bank, the collecting bank may utilize a presenting bank of its choice.

Article 6
Sight/Acceptance
In the case of documents payable at sight the presenting bank must make presentation for payment without delay.
In the case of documents payable at a tenor other than sight the presenting bank must, where acceptance is called for, make presentation for acceptance without delay, and where payment is called for, make presentation for payment not later than the appropriate maturity date.

Article 7
Release of Commercial Documents
Documents Against Acceptance (D/A) vs. Documents Against Payment (D/P)
a.Collection should not contain bills of exchange payable at a future date with instruction that commercial documents are to be delivered against payment.
b. If a collection contains a bill of exchange payable at a future date, the collection instruction should state whether the commercial documents are to be released to the drawee against acceptance (D/A) or against payment (D/P).
In the absence of such statement commercial documents will be released only against payment and the collecting bank will not be responsible for any consequences arising out of any delay in the delivery of documents.
c. If a collection contains a bill of exchange payable at a future date and the collection instruction indicates that commercial documents are to be released against payment, documents will be released only against such payment and the collecting bank will not be responsible for any consequences arising out of any delay in the delivery of documents.

Article 8
Creation of Documents
Where the remitting bank instructs that either the collecting bank or the drawee is to create documents (bills of exchange promissory notes, trust receipts,letters of undertaking or other documents) that were not included in the collection, the form and wording of such documents shall be provided by the remitting bank, otherwise the collecting bank shall not be liable or responsible for the form and wording of any such document provided by the collecting bank and/or the drawee.

C. Liabilities and Responsibilities
Article 9
Good faith and Reasonable Care
Banks will act in good faith and exercise reasonable care.

Article 10
Documents vs. Goods/Services/Performances
a.Goods should not be dispatched directly to the address of a bank or consigned to or to the order of a bank without prior agreement on the part of that bank.
Nvertheless, in the event that goods are dispatched directly to the address of a bank or consigned to or to the order of a bank for release to a drawee against payment or acceptance or upon other terms and conditions without prior agreement on the part of that bank, such bank shall have no obligation to take delivery of the goods, which remain at the risk and responsibility of the party dispatching the goods.
b. Banks have no obligation to take any action in respect of the goods to which a documentary collection relates, including storage and insurance of the goods even when specific instructions are given to do so. Banks will only take such action if, when, and to the extent that they agree to do so in each case, notwithstanding the provisions of sub-article 1 (c), this rule applies even in the absence of any specific advice to this effect by the collecting bank.
c. Nevertheless, in the case that banks take action for the protection of the goods, whether instructed or not, they assume no liability or responsibility with regard to the fate and/or condition of the goods and/or for any acts and/or omissions on the part of any third parties entrusted with the custody and/or protection of the goods. However, the collecting bank must advise without delay the bank from which the collection instruction was received of any such action taken.
d. Any charges and/or expensed incurred by banks in connection with any action taken to protect the goods will be for the account of the party from whom they received the collection.
e. i. Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-article 10 (a), where the goods are consigned to or the order of the collecting bank and the drawee has honoured the collection by payment, acceptance or other terms and conditions, and the collecting bank arranges for the authorized the collecting bank to do so.
ii.Where a collecting bank on the instructions of the remitting bank or in terms of sub-article 10 (e) i, arranges for the release of the goods, the remitting bank shall indemnify such collecting bank for all damages and expenses incured.

Article 11
Disclaimer For Acts of an Instructed Party
a. Banks utilizing the services of another bank or other banks for the purposes of giving effect to the instructions of the principal, do so for the account and at the risk of such principal.
b. Banks assume no liability or responsibility should the instructions they transmit not be carried out, even if they have themselves taken the initiative in the choice of such other bank(s).
c. A party instructing another party to perform services shall be bound by and liable to indemnify the instructed party against all obligations and responsibilities imposed by foreign laws and usages.

Article 12
Disclaimer on Documents Received
a.Bank must determine that the documents received appear to be as listed in the collection
instruction and must advise by telecom-munication or, if that is not possible, by other expeditious means, without delay, the party from whom the collection instruction was received of any documents missing, or found t be other than listed.
Banks have no further obligation in this respect.
b. If the documents do not appear to be listed, the remitting bank shall be precluded from disputing the type and number of documents received by the collecting bank.
c. Subject to sub-article 5 (c) and sub-article 12 (a) and 12 (b) above, banks will present documents as received without further examination.

Article 13
Disclaimer on Effectiveness of Documents
Banks assume no liability or responsibility ofr the form, sufficiency,accuracy,genuineness,falsification or legal effect of any document (s) or superimposed thereon; nor do they assume any liability, condition,packing ,delivery, value of existence of the goods represented by any document (s),or for the good faith or acts and/or omission,solvency,performance or standing of the consignors, the carriers,the forwarders,the consignees or the insurers of the goods, or any other person whomsoever.

Article 14
Disclaimer on Delays,Loss in Transit and Translation
a.Banks assume no liability or responsibility for the consequences arising out of delay and/or loss in transit of any message (s), letter(s) or document(s), or for delay,mutilation or other error(s) arising in transmission of any telecommunication or for error(s) in translation and/or interpretation of technical terms.