ANNOUNCEMENT 30 Jun 2019

The German Export Credit Agency Euler Hermes Aktiengesellschaft provided a guarantee to support a German company's export of a section mill to China.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

2

  • 1 harmful
  • 1 neutral
  • 0 liberalising

SOURCE

AGA-Portal, Project information June 2019: https://www.agaportal.de/en/exportkreditgarantien/praxis/projektinformationen
AGA-Portal, Main features of export credit guarantees:
https://www.agaportal.de/en/exportkreditgarantien/grundlagen/grundzuege
AGA-Portal: https://www.agaportal.de/en
AGA-Portal, Foreign Content: https://www.agaportal.de/en/exportkreditgarantien/verfahren/auslaendische-zulieferungen
AGA-Portal, further information concerning near-cash terms: https://www.agaportal.de/en/exportkreditgarantien/grundlagen/bauleistungsdecku

Inception date: 30 Jun 2019 | Removal date: open ended

Trade finance

In June 2019, the German Export Credit Agency Euler Hermes Aktiengesellschaft granted an export credit guarantee. The guarantee supports the German company SMS group GmbH's export of a section mill to China.

The German Export Credit Agency Euler Hermes Aktiengesellschaft only publishes value ranges for the projects it finances. The present project is in category 2. This category includes projects with a financing value between EUR 16 and 50 million. The GTA assumes the lower bound amount of the respective category, in this case, 16 million EUR (approx. USD 18.2 million), as the conservative estimate of the project value. The credit period is under near-cash terms.

Germany provides Export Credit Guarantees and Untied Loan Guarantees to support German exports. The issuance of such guarantees is managed on "behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany by Euler Hermes Aktiengesellschaft". 

The GTA includes state guarantees and other financial incentives that are likely to affect the restructuring and performance of firms facing international competition, whether from imports, in export markets or from foreign subsidiaries.

AFFECTED SECTORS

 
443

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

 
845510
Inception date: 30 Jun 2019 | Removal date: open ended

Local sourcing

The German Export Credit Agency's approval process depends on the percentage of foreign-sourced goods included in the value of the export contract. Export contracts which include a foreign content value lower than 49% are approved without further investigation. However, if the export contract value contains more than 49% in foreign-sourced goods, an "Interministerial Committee will decide whether a transaction may be covered on the merits of the individual case." According to the agency, the criteria for this evaluation include the likely effect of the transaction on German employment, whether the location of the project's management remains in Germany, the domestic availability of foreign-sourced inputs, and the German exporter's capacity utilisation rate.

 
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