Export Financing

Seasonal Export Financing

  • Interest Rate: 8%
  • Project Cost Limit: Up to 5M
  • Maximum Debt: Debt 75%, Equity 25%
  • Loan Tenure: Maximum of 1 Year
  • Collateral Requirement: Guarantor
  • Repayment Frequency: Monthly/ Quarterly

Non-Seasonal Export Financing

  • Interest Rate: 8%
  • Project Cost Limit: Up to 5M
  • Maximum Debt: Debt 75%, Equity 25%
  • Loan Tenure: Maximum of 1 Year
  • Collateral Requirement: Assets + Guarantor
  • Repayment Frequency: Monthly/ Quarterly

Eligibility Criteria

  1. Any Bhutanese Nationals above 18 years to 65 years except students, monks, and nuns or employed at the time of application
  2. Individual borrowers and partnerships, fulfilling the above clause
  3. Co-operatives, associations, farmers groups, and exporters
  4. Must not be declared bankrupt under the Bankruptcy Act of Bhutan
  5. Credit-worthy Applicant, spouse, and guarantor who have clean credit information report (CIR) for his/her past loan(s).
  6. Those Applicants who have had bad CIR in the past but have cleared the outstanding or closed the loan account in the recent time. However, the applicant can apply after 6 months of cooling period accompanied by a clean CIR.
  7. Where borrower and spouse have loans with other financial institutions for activities/projects other than the proposed project with NCSIDBL, the total of the previous loan outstanding and the proposed funds from NCSIDBL shall not exceed Nu. 20 million.

Categories

Seasonal Financing
  • Buying and Selling of Bhutanese local produce/products outside the country.
  • Packing and value addition.
Non-Seasonal Financing
  • Export of non-seasonal Bhutanese products to outside countries.

Checklist

  1. Loan Application Form
  2. Guarantor form / NCGS form if applied under NCGS
  3. Copy of valid CID of applicant, spouse, and guarantor (if the CID’s validity is expired/ lost and if the applicant is divorced, a confirmation letter from the concerned authority shall be submitted).
  4. Copy of land certificate (Authorization letter and CID copy from landowner in case the proponent is not the landowner)
  5. Project proposal (Refer minimum requirement and templates)
  6. List of Assets Form (Download)
  7. Approximate Construction Cost Form (Download)
  8. Relevant clearance (if required).

Additional documents are required to submit after approval

  1. Approved drawing and cost estimates from Dzongkhag Engineer / relevant authority
  2. Business license
  3. Proforma invoice (if applicable)
  4. If the unit is operated from an apartment:
    1. Occupancy certificate (If the proponent is house owner).
    2. Rental agreement (If the proponent is a tenant).
    3. No objection letter from the owner of the building/apartment (If the proponent is a tenant).

Procedure for Additional Loan

  1. The client must submit the Additional Loan Form
  2. Generate the CIR of the client, guarantor, and spouse.
  3. The loan should be active and the repayment should be on time without any default.
  4. Carry out inspection & monitoring of the existing project to determine whether the project is operational or not, current cash flow is adequate to meet the new EMI and the additional loan is genuinely required.
  5. Conduct loan appraisals based on the progress and future potential viability of the business.
  6. Use old ticket & forward the proposal for approval from the authorities concerned.
  7. The total of the additional and the existing loan should be within Nu 10 Million.

Terms and Conditions – Disbursement of Additional loan

  1. All additional loans are to be disbursed as an add-on to the existing loan in the system provided the interest rate is the same. In case, the interest rate differs from the existing loan, it will be disbursed as a new loan under the same customer ID.
  2. The loan term shall be determined case by case.
  3. New EMI shall be generated.

Export Financing