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7. Obligation
 
  7.3 Standards of financial instruments  
  Article 216-Trade Loan  
216.1 Trade Loan  
  A trade loan is a contract by which the lender hands over a certain quantity of money to the borrower that is then used to facilitate capital works of the business on the agreement to return a like quantity of the same kind and quality to the lender after a certain time.  
216.2 Standards of structure and information  
  The standard structure of a trade loan shall be as follows:  
  (i) All the key and pertinent information that is unique to the contracts is provided in form design including signature and approval at the front;  
  (ii) Any modified clauses, new clauses (including new technical word definitions), list of deleted clauses and/or other special considerations that are different from the standard form of general contract immediately after the summary of key information;  
  (iii) The standard clauses (including definitions) of the primary form as the last attachment with any deleted clauses crossed out using a clear "x" through the body of the clause .  
  This structure shall allow the easiest method of contract interpretation, validation that it complies to the primary form and conversion to an electronic record.  
216.3 General application of trade loan  
  The following are the general application and requirements of a home loan:  
  (i) all enterprises employing less than 20 persons are eligible for a trade loan. All business larger than this size must negotiate a general loan agreement;  
216.4 Qualifying criteria of a trade loan  
  The purpose of a trade loan is to facilitate low interest capital avialability for the smallest businesses of the economy who produce the greatest growth in jobs and wealth in the community.  
  The following is the minimum qualifying criteria:  
  (i) The business must have been in operation for at least 12 months;  
  (ii) The business owners must not have been in charge of a business employing more than 2 people that has been liquidated in the past two years;  
  (iii) That the business has a capital works plan for the loan in which less than 20% of the loan will be directly or indirectly for wages and 80% will be for improvement of the business;  
  (iv) That the business has a clear commercialization/marketing strategy;  
  (v) That as a direct result of finalizing capital works and commercialization the business has a clear employment strategy (including job descriptions) of at least 30% more full time staff ;  
     
     
     
 
 

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