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Letters of credit and status inquiries Objectives Master the characteristics of credit and status inquiry letters Identify the layout and writing style Grasp the useful expressions used in the letters Accomplish a stimulated writing in practice Sample Letter-1 The following contents should be expressed Credit and status inquiry Credit and status inquiry Business Correspondence Unit 4 Unit 4 Business Correspondence vocabulary Credit and status inquiry Standing credit ： Credit standing： Reference： Confidential: Concern： Render： Obligation: Creditor 定额贷款 保密 证明书、证明人 商行、财团 信用状况 给以援助 义务、责任 债主、债权人 Under what conditions is a letter of credit and status inquiries written? Credit and status inquiry In the business trade, before dealing, both the seller and buyer have to agree upon the credit period, which means the time for the loans to be paid back. The length of credit period mainly depends on your partner’s financial reputation. Credit and status inquiry Sources of the inquiries: Banks Business friend Chamber of Commerce Enquiry agencies Chinese Commercial Counselor’s office in Foreign Country Foreign Commercial Counselor’s Office in China; Credit Enquiry Associate Enquiry group of your own Credit and status inquiry Two references： Bank reference: objective and reliable but much simpler, lacking deeper understand Trade reference: more detailed but subjective Firm A Firm B Bank A Bank B Dear Sirs, As we are on the point of executing a considerable order from Messrs. J. A. Hussain Co., P.O. Box 386, Karachi, we should be much obliged if you would inform us, in confidence, of their financial standing and modes of business. The reference they have given us is the Standard Chartered Bank, Karachi Branch. Will you please be good enough to approach the said bank for all possible information we require. It goes without saying that any information you may obtain for us will be treated as strictly confidential and without any resp