Preface I 前言 III Chapter 1 General Introduction 1 1.1 Origin and Development of International Settlement 1 1.2 Basis and Conditions of International Settlement 8 1.3 International Payment Systems 16 Chapter 2 Instruments of International Settlement 25 2.1 An Overview of Negotiable Instruments 25 2.2 Bill of Exchange 28 2.3 Promissory Note 53 2.4 Check 57 2.5 Cases 65 Chapter 3 Remittance 67 3.1 Outline of Remittance 67 3.2 Procedure for Remittance 70 3.3 Application of Remittance 75 3.4 Cases 81 Chapter 4 Collection 83 4.1 An Overview of Collection 83 4.2 Documentary Collection Practice 90 4.3 Risk Protection and Financing under Collection 99 4.4 Cases 102 Chapter 5 Letter of Credit 108 5.1 An Overview of L/C 108 5.2 Procedures of L/C 123 5.3 Types of L/C (including standby L/C) 130 5.4 Key Issues under L/C 142 5.5 Cases 157 Chapter 6 Other Methods of International Settlement 165 6.1 Bank’s Letter of Guarantee 165 6.2 International Factoring 171 6.3 Forfeiting 175 6.4 Cases 179 Chapter 7 Documents Used in International Settlement 181 7.1 Commercial Documents 181 7.2 Transport Documents 188 7.3 Insurance Documents 195 7.4 Official Documents 198 7.5 Documents Examinations and Disposal of Discrepancies 205 7.6 Cases 208 Chapter 8 Non-trade Settlement 213 8.1 Basic Content of Non-trade Settlement 213 8.2 Non-trade Remittance 213 8.3 Clean Collection and Clean L/C 216 8.4 Credit Card 219 8.5 Cases 222 Chapter 9 Cyber Payments 224 9.1 Introduction of Cyber Payments 224 9.2 Payment through the Internet 227 9.3 Cyber Payments?Today and Future 234
9.4 Cases 236 Appendix 1 Glossary 241 Appendix 2 ICC Uniform Rules for Collections 262 Appendix 3 ICC Uniform and Practice for Documentary Credit 271 Appendix 4 International Standby Practices (ISP98) 292 Appendix 5 ICC Uniform Rules for Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements under Documentary Credits (ICC Publication No.525) 295 References 304 Postscript 306 后记 307