The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States; Export-Import Bank of the United States (federal export credit agency)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 12 U.S.C. § 635(a)(1); § 635a(c)
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-12 (initial period of 30 days) (read as 2020-03-12)
- End
- Extended through May 31, 2020 (Ex. 093), Aug. 31, 2020 (Ex. 094), Oct. 31, 2020 (Ex. 095), Apr. 30, 2021 (Ex. 096) and April 2022 (Ex. 097) (read as 2020-05-31)
- In force
- Mar. 12, 2020 to May 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- U.S. exporters and the commercial lenders and insurance brokers that use EXIM's Working Capital Guarantee, export credit insurance and medium-term programs
- Functions reached
- BL export working-capital lending by commercial banks under EXIM guarantee
- IN export credit insurance (claim and reporting deadlines)
- OP
- CB exporters whose shipments and buyers were disrupted
- Collection
- Federal financial regulators AGY-FED-FINANCIAL
Operative words
EXIM is offering relief measures, including waivers, deadline extensions, streamlined processing, and flexibility, to its customers for an initial period of 30 days (with the [possibility of extension])... Working Capital Guarantee Program... 'To this end, we are extending the periods of our working capital facilities and the [reporting and claim deadlines under our insurance policies].'
Enforcement
Program terms and conditions under 12 U.S.C. § 635; contractual
Notes
The export credit agency's first pandemic action, on the day before the national emergency, recognizing that exporters and their lenders could not meet program deadlines
Retrieval noteRendered from the live EXIM release (dateline 'FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2020' verified in the exhibit).