With the Standard Chartered Group's footprints in over 1,400 branches and offices around the world, professional consulting teams from our Group Office offer assistance to help you explore overseas business opportunity. You need a professional team to help you on access to the trade facilities as well as manage your possible risk.

For your new order, we offer the following integrated tailor-made services during the processes of raw material purchasing, production, shipping, sales and payment collection:

• Import/Export Trade Services & Financing
• Export Trade Service & Financing
• Short Term Working Capital
• Guarantee Services

To reduce related business risks, especially the encounter of a new trading partner and obtain payment guarantee when engaged in the import/export trading businesses, we offer services to help you mitigate business risks incurred because of the lack of sufficient information for accurate assessment. These risks include payment risks assumed from bank bankruptcy or political turmoil in a country.

All you need to do is to provide us with relevant requested documents and we will then offer confirmation on that L/C accordingly. By doing this, we will assume payment risks for you and release you from the potential concerns to ensure you in focusing on exploring new businesses.

To meet your demands to lower sales and export business costs as well as to speed up the process, we offer the experts to help you collect payment in a more speedy way and lower risks during the trading process. We offer:

• Pre-shipment Financing
• Letter of Credit ("L/C") Advising
• Export Bill under Collection
• Export Bill Negotiation under L/C
• L/C Confirmation
• L/C Transfer
• Export Invoice Financing

With nearly 150 years of trade service experience, the Standard Chartered Group knows deeply how to assist you to clear customs as fast as possible, minimize risks when making purchases from suppliers and ensure that your capital is well managed by offering the following services:

• Guarantee on Recorded Customs Duty
• Import L/C Issuing
• Standby L/C Issuing
• Import L/C Advance
• Shipping Guarantee
• Banker's Acceptance
• Import Collection Services & Financing

Trade Service Hotline – Speedy Consulting Services

To assist you in reaching more convenient and comprehensive Trade solutions, we have specifically established customer service hotline exclusively for you to ensure real time response on issues of import / export business, import sales financing, credit line disbursement as well as to offer channels of consulting services.