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ROLE OF BANKS IN

IMPORT EXPORT
BUSINESS
??What is Import

??What is Export
How to start an Import
Export Business??
For Import Business
No person can import goods into Pakistan unless he
is registered with the Export Promotion Bureau,
under the Registration (Importers and Exporters)
Order, 1993 or exempted from the provisions of
the said Order
How to start an Import
Export Business??
For Export Business
Under the Registration (Importers and Exporters)
Order, 1993, as amended from time to time, no
person can export any goods from Pakistan unless
he is duly registered as an exporter with the
Export Promotion Bureau.
Régulations for Import Export
Business
• Import Trade Control
• Modes of payments for imports. 
– Letter of credit
– Registration of contract
– Clean Remittance
• Prohibition to open Letters of Credit for
Import from Certain Countries
• Import of Unlawful object
How Letter of
Credit works??
Lets do some healthy
Exercise
Parties Involved in Import
Export Business
• Advising Bank
• Applicant (Importer/ Buyer)
• Beneficiary (Exporter/ Seller)
• Confirming Bank
Seller’s Bank Buyers’s Bank

Seller Buyer

Carrier

After a contract is concluded between buyer and seller,


.buyer's bank supplies a letter of credit to seller
Seller’s Bank Buyers’s Bank

Seller Buyer

Carrier

Seller consigns the goods to a carrier in exchange for a bill


of lading
Seller’s Bank Buyers’s Bank

Seller Buyer

Carrier

Seller provides bill of lading to bank in exchange for


payment. Seller's bank exchanges bill of lading for payment
from buyer's bank. Buyer's bank exchanges bill of lading for
payment from the buyer.
Seller’s Bank
Buyers’s Bank

Seller Buyer

Carrier

Buyer provides bill of lading to carrier and takes delivery of


goods.
Thank You !

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