第三课练习练习五：1.After a market investigation for about one year, we found your products to be very marketable inour local area・ And we hereby take the liberty of writing to you, hoping to co-operate with you. 2.We are much impressed by your KC-99-220 harvestor displayed at the Asian AgriculturalMachinery Fair held in Manila last 28th , and we hereby write to you to negotiate about the sales of this product on our local market.3.We learnt from the Brazilla in Brazil that you are the largest seller of auto clutch on the localmarket, and we are eager to establish a long standing business relationship with you.4.As for our credit standing in the business of car batteries, you may please refer to the Hiss or theUnited National Bank・5.We are the largest distriibtor of Motor Bike Spareparts in our local area, if we are luchy enough tobe your exclusive agent in this area, we are sure your sales will double at our promotion in the local area.6.The product has been tested by many users and have received a good evaluation from them. If youintend to introduce the product to your market, we will provide you with ten cases of samples by consignment.7.We are the largest stationery importer in our local area・ In the past five years we have imported alarge amount of pencils, pens and pencil box from Europe・ But now because of a rise in cost and etc., we hope to increase our import from China・8・ We learnt form the Pheonix TV ads that you are producing a new pattern of window curtains wholly made of velvet material. So we hereby write to you, hope to obtain some information about you and the details of your products・9.Our newly developed product appears to be quite the same with the previous KC・114, but on closeexamination you may find that they are very different in terms of their stuff, color and hardness.10・ We are very intersted in your air-con compressors and we hope to negotiate with you about its sales on our local market.笫四课练习练习三.1 • We have been in the market for first quality shirts with permanent press since last yea匚Andrecently we learnt from your commercial counsellor^ office that you are the special maker of this shirt. We would appreiate it very much if you can provide us ith some color samples and illustrated catalogue, stating the CIF price, discount rate and the earliest date of delivery of diffent shirts.2.We learnt from the ABC company that you are exporting all kinds of gloves, and we would bemuch obliged if you would send us details of your products, including the size, color, price and the discount rate when our order in beyond five gross, along with the samples made of differentmaterials. We are largest chains store in this area, and if your price is reasonable, we are sure your products will sell well here・3.Thank you for your letter of Sept. 15th・ Upon receipt of your letter, we contacted the Haida, who isthe largest stationery exporter in this area, and is very experienced in the sales of stationery・ They will contact you in three days・4.We deeply regret to tell you that as we are being heavily committed with orders, we can notentertain any fresh order for the time being, nor can we sign any contract with you now・ But the factory can accept new orders by the end of next month. We hope that we can be of service to you at that time.5・ We hereby send you under separate cover the catalogue and price list of our latest products. And we hope that their quality and price will be of satisfaction to you.笫五课练习三.1.Thank you for your letter of this 20th, offering us 50 L/Ts of the captioned item at U.S.D.l 35 per L/TCFR Shanghai.Our reply is as follows: We are sorry that our users considered your price to be exceeding high, and out of line with the prevailing market. It is said that some Japanese commodities are being sold at the price of U.S.D.125 per L/T. Therefore, it will be difficult to advise our users to accept your price, when we can buy the same goods with better quality and lower price・ If you are willing to reduce your price by, say, 8%, we may come to terms.It is only in view of our long standi ng busi ness relations that we made the above counter offer. Price is falling. So please consider it carefully and cable your acceptance at an early date・2.We have carefully studied your letter of Oct. 12山・Considering our business relations for manyyears, we should in fact accept your proposal to lower the price or our underwears. But it is pretty difficult for us to do so. In the past few months, we have experienced a rapid rise in the cost of raw materials. If we reduce the price by 15% as you suggested, we will have to lower the standard of our quality. But this is not what we are willing to do.So we suggest that for all the orders valued over 3,000, price will be reduced by 8%, but not 15%. So the price reduction will not affect the quality.四.1.Thank you for your letter of June 14th, inquiring about the export price of our local garlic of thisyearns crop.2.We hereby enclose a sample of our existing stock. If you are satisfied with it, please inform us so thatwe can prepare the cargo.3・ After contacting our makers, we were informed that they have been heavily committed until the end of May. Therefore they cannot entertain your order for the time being.4.We learnt from your letter of May 15th that if we grant another 10% discount on the list price, youmay place an orde匚Such a big discount will be very exceptional. But considering the fact that it is the initial transaction between us, we decided to accept your conter offe匚5.The price is already very workable・ But in order to expand the business between us, we maygive you another 3% discount.6.If your order is over 2,000, we will make a special offer at $ 9.00 per set, i.e. a 3% discount.7.Our best price at present is the same with that we offered in our letter No. 456. If your actual order isover 7,500 yards, we may advise the maker to further reduce their price・&We hereby offer 200 M/T of Noth-east soybeans of 1999 crop at the price of RMB 1750 per M/T CIFEMP for December shipment・9.We deeply regret that we can not meet requirments for the time being owing to two many orders.10.The green beans are packed in ordinary second hand gunny bags, each with a net weight of 50 kgs.第六课练习1.We have received with thanks your letter of Feb. 15 along with the enclosed pattern sample and the price list. We selected three items and we hereby enclose our order No. 777. We are in urgent need of the cargo and please make shipment as soon as possible.Item No. Unit Price Quantity Date of ShipmentPacking: one doz・ in each case, and ten cases in each cartonInsurance: to be covered against FPA for 10% over the invoice amount.Payment: by inevocable L/C payable by sight draft・2.In reply to your letter of May 20th, we are much interested in your different sizes of children's clothes. After a creful study of your proposals, we decided to make the following trial order, on condition that you promise to deliver the cargo to the port of Melbourne before the end of next month. Beyond that date, we will reserve our right to cancel the order and reject the cargo. Please inform us if you agree to this term.3.We learned with great pleasure from your letter of May 15th that you intended to place a substantial order for many items, on the basis of our offer dated May 5l lAll the items are in stock, except for 50 dozens of pink bed sheets. The pink were all sold out after we sent out our offer, and the maker told us that fresh supply will be available only after four weeks.As you stated in your order that you are in urgent need of the cargo, we replaced the cargo with orange, which is totally the same with the pink in both the color and quality. It is beautiful and attractive, and is very popular among our customers・ We hope that you will be satisfied with it. Otherwise, please cable us immediately・4.We learned from your letter of March 30 that you considered our captioned item to be on the high side. Thank you for your cooperation in telling us the daily price in your local market. But we are very sorry that it is impossible to reduce our price by 8% as you suggested・ By the way, we want to tell you that we have had many inquires from other customers, and it is likely that we can come to terms at about our level. Our price is very workable and can not accept your counter-offer at the moment. If later, you can see your way to raise your price, please inform us. Also, please inform us of the change of your market. We promise to give serious consideration to any of your inquiries.五•翻译1.What we quoted is our rock-bottom price, and we deeply regret that we cannot accept any further reduction.2.Our price is the best price we can offer now.3.It is impossible to conclude any business, unless you reduce your price by 15%.4.The factory has to decline any fresh orders due to a shortage of raw materials.5.Our products are better in quality than other suppliers・ If you take this into consideration, you maysee that our price is in fact better than others.6.In view fo the conditions of our present stock, it is likely that we can not accept any new orders until the end of next month.7. We are in receipt of your letter dated July 15 along with the enclosed order for 200 sets of drillers・We hereby enclose our sales confirmation No.236 in duplicate・ Please sign and return one copy for our file.& We have booked your order No. 45 for 100,000 yds of printed fabric item No. 10074. Please inform us of the colors and open the relevant L/C in our favor as stipulated in the contract.9.We are satisfied with the results of the negotiation in Kwangchou. We hereby enclose our order No.95 for 500 sets of alarm clock for a trial sale on our market.10.We hereby enclose our trial order for 200 sets of knitting machine・ If the quality proved to be satisfactory, many orders will follow・第七课练习七1 ・ In order to encourage your sales promotion of our products, we reached an agreement with you at afavourable price below the prevailing market level.2.Please make a contract on the basis of our agreed terms and send it to us for our counter-sign.3.As for the date and quantity of shipment, we have made it very clear in the sales confirmation: 5M/T for London in May, 10 M/T for Liverpool in June.4.We hereby enclose our sales confirmation No. KD-120 in triplicate for 20 M/T of ciitronella oil.Please sign and return one copy for our file.5.As for the details of the contract, please refer to the cables between us during April and May・6.We need to reconsider the details of the contract you worked out before we can sign it・7.We want to make a special statement that the contract must have definite stipulations about theinspection time after the cargo arrived at the port.& As this is a contract about the import of plant, so it has a lot of complications, and we need to consult our technicians about the details of the equipment parameters before we can determine them.9.Some patented technologies are included in the equipment. Therefore the contract must havedefinite stipulations about the use of such patents so as to avoid unnecessary subsequent disputes.10.Our general view of this contract is that it stipulated too much about the seller's rights but itsstipulations about the seller's obligations and the buyer's rights are too generalized. Therefore we cannot say that it is a contract balanced between rights and obligations. So we must re-consider the clauses of the contract before we can decide to sign it.第八课：练习八翻译1・ We are awaiting the amendment cable of the validity and shipment date of the relevant L/C・2.because direct steamers are very few, we have to request you to amend the relevant clauses in yourL/C to "transshipment via Hongkong allowed”3.Because of the late arrival of your L/C and the congestion of the cargo, we failed to abtain thenecessary space・4.As the s.s. Victoria filed to rech the shceduled port of shipment before July 15, and there are noother vessles available, we will have to ask you to extend the date of shipment and the validity of the L/C to August 5 and 20 respectively.5.Referring to the 2,000 dozs of shirts under our sales confirmation No. KC-215, the date of shipmentis approaching, please expedite the establishment of your L/C and cable us of the opening bank, the number and date of the L/C.6.D/A will be too risky for us, so we only accept D/P at sight.7.Referring to the peanut kernels under our sames confiimation HK/7021, we have booked a space onthe s.s. Dorris sailing directly for Marseille on June 25. Please advise your bank to airmail theoriginal L/C No. HS-231 as soon as possible.& We are in receipt of the L/C No. 9845 opened by the H.S. Bank of Singapore. The said L/C covers 120 M/Ts of F.A.Q. peanuts kernels of 1999 crop under our sales contract HJ402.9.The cargo has been ready for shipment for quite a long time・ But we failed to make shimpentbecause your L/C is yet to arrive.10."Banking commisions and charges are for the befeficiary5s account" must be deleted from your L/C.Because such fees are for the buyer's accout as stipulated in the agreement.练习九1.Through our joint efforts and cooperation, we have reachen an agreement on the sales of 31 M/Tsof bar steel on the Guangzhou Trade Fair. We sincerely hope that this initial business will promote the trade and friendly relations between us. As for the terms of payment, we have noted in thenegotiation that the pound is experiencing a depreciation and we insist on opening your L/C interms of U.S.$ so as to guarantee the real value of the our amount. Obviously you agreed to us and that is why we signed the agreement. But in your letter of April 15 you said you find it difficult to open in dollars. We are surprised to hear that. Many customers in your area didn't find anydiffuculties in opening in dollars・ We have started the man ufacture of your order as con traded and shipment can be made upon receipt of your L/C ・ Please open your L/C at once ascontracted・2.Upon receipt of your notice of May 10 that the export lisence had been issued, we, as usual, hadopened our L/C by cable for an amount of U.S.D. 25,000・Please make sure that delivery to be made within this month・ Delivery on time is very important on our local market・Please paint the drum with a remarkable shipping mark of “DKKso as to facilitate our taking delivery.Please try to load the cargo on board the vessel s.s. "KOREAN", which is due to sail off on the 24 of this month.3.Three discrepancies with the contract were found in your L/C:First, Certificate of Manufactures was required in your L/C, but no such clause can be found in the contract. In fact the contracted item is a kind of farm product, and it is impossible to obtainCertificate of Manufactures.Secondly, the total CIF amount was stipulated to be 5,000 dollars in your L/C, but it is 5,500dollars in the contract・Thirdly, the contract number should be 82/1245 but not 82/1254.The cargo is ready for shipment and please amend your L/C by cabel as soon as possible・第九课：练习九1.We will do our best to arrange the first shipment on time so that you can catch the season.2.The cargo has been ready for shipment for as long as one month, but up to now, your L/C is yet toarrive・3.The cargo under our S/C No. DM-41 has been ready for shipment. Please hasten to establish yourL/C through your bank.. Otherwise it will be difficult for us to obtain necessary containers and space・4.We want to make it clear. If there is any further delay in your L/C, we will be unable to guaranteeour shipment within the contracted time.5.As transshipment is required in transportation, we packed the cargo with special care to avoid anypossible damage during the transit.6.As our stock is not up to the requirements in your L/C, we hope you would amend your L/Cthrough the opening bank so that we can make delivery within the contracted time.7.The cargo has been ready for shipment for over 30 days・ But you have not remitted 50% of thevalue as downpayment to our designated account just as we agreed in the contract.& We have repeatedly noted in our order that the cargo must be carried in containers. Otherwise the insurance company will refuse to bear whole responsibilities for the damage or shortage therefrom.9.We hereby inform you that 300 M/Ts of Coconut oil uner your order No. 99-KM412 has beenloaded onto the vessel s.s. “Pearl”. T he said vessel is scheduled to reach the Port of Antwerp at the beginning of April.10.After shipment, we have prepared the full set of shipping documents presented them to the localbank for negotiation・练习十1.It is stipulated in the contract No. CT865 concluded in Dec. 20, 1996 that 5,000 M/Ts of steel plateare to be delivered in March 1997. But so far we have not heard any news from you about this. Our user is in urgent need of the cargo and we intend to despatch the s.s. Dongfeng to take load. The vessel will reach your port around the end of April. Please cable us if you agree to this・ Otherwise please tell us when the cargo cam be ready・The delay in shipemnt has caused us much troubles. If you cannot make shipment in April, we will have to claim against you and reserve our right to cancel the order.2.Thank you for your letter of November 15 inquiring about the sales of our costumes. We herebyenclose our catalog and price list as requested, along with other conditions and terms of payment.We carefully studied your proposals to guarantee a minimum order in exchange for a special discount. But we think it to be better to grant you a special discount on the following progressive terms:Total Annual Purchase Discount RateWe hope that the above arrangement will be more satisfactory to both of us.We look forward to your early acceptance of our proposal and your usual sales confirmation, so that we can make an immediate delivery.第十课练习三.1・ Our insurance for the fertilizer is for 120% of the total invoice value up to the port of desti natio n.2. Please note that insurance covers only FPA and the risk of breakage .If additional insurance isrequired, the extra premium will be for your own account.3・ Insumnce isto be covered at 110% of our CIF value. If any additional insurance is required, plese inform the seller beforehand and such additional fees will be borne by the buyer.4.As for the insura nee of the cargo, it was definitely stipulated in the contract that insurance coversonly against W.A. including T.P.N.D. (W/W clause) and War Risks. Please make it clear when you open your L/C.5.Please see to it that insurance covers only W.A. including warehouse to warehouse clause valid for15 days.6.You made your offer on the basis of CFRC4%, so you are to cover insura nee. But we can coverinsurance for your account if you request. In this case, you should inform us of the amount and risks to be covered 15 days before the date of shipment.7・ Under the present weather conditions, the insurance company will face more risks. And therefore they may raise their premium nite.8.As for your claims for the shortage due to the breakage of 14 cases, we, as the insurer, can not giveyou any reply at the moment, because no investigations about the causes of the damage have been made. But we promise you that a reply will be sent to you from our agen within one week.9.Coverage of risks should be determined in accordance with the specifics of the cargo. Otherwise theinsurance may either fail to provide effective protection to the cargo or the premium may beunnecessarily too high・10・ If you do not pack the cargo in wooden cases, the insurance company may reject any claims for compensation. Because this packing is not the customary packing of this cargo.第十一课练习四1.As the cargo arrived 15 days later than the contracted date, our clients refused to take the cargo, andso we will have to refect the cargo and claim against you.2.We deeply regret to tell you that the cargo under contract KM-944 loaded on the S.S. "Victoria^arrived and upon inspection we found that 5 cases were severely deformed, 4 cases with half of the contents missing, and 7 cases lost their iron bands with conditions of their contents unknown.3.When we checked the cargo we found that the cargo were severely damaged・ So we will have towithhold the payment until we have the official inspection certificate・4.When checking the cargo we found that over half of the goods were covered with mould, and this isapparently due to inappropriate packing・5・The outer packing of the cargo were in good conditions but there was a serious shortage in the contents. Therefore we will have to take it as something already existed when you packedyour goods in your factory.6.We are deeply sorry for the delay of the cargo and for the inconveniences it might have brought toyou. And we want to point out that the delay was due to a provisional breakdown of the carrying vessel which failed to sail off on time.7.If you can provide qualified certificates evidencing that the deteriorated part of the cargo is morethan 5% of the whole lot, we will try to contact the insurance company for compensatio n.8.We are sure that this consignment has a great quality discrepancy with the samples you gave usbefore the conclusion of the contract. Therefore you must bear responsibilities therefrom・9.When we seriously consider the problem of claims, we will contact the makers and press them toimprove their carton packing immediately, so that the cargo can be protected from any possible damage by rough handling・10.When checking the number of the goods, we found that their actual number isdifferent from thenumber stated in the invoice and bill of lading・。
