Stocking Facility

• Be duly incorporated/registered in Nigeria as limited liability companies or cooperative societies (manufacturing, trading or service companies);
• Be existing production units with a minimum of 50% export orientation evidenced by previous and existing export orders or any other evidence acceptable to NEXIM, or
• Be new units with a minimum of 50% export orientation evidenced by export commitment(s) or any other evidence acceptable to NEXIM.

Any commercial bank acceptable to NEXIM Bank.

All PB's are expected to fully secure their lending. The types of security acceptable to NEXIM shall include but not limited to the following:

• Promissory Notes/Irrevocable Transfer Orders for the amount of the facility suitably drawn.
• Fixed and/or floating charge over all assets of the project and/or promoter's landed properties with NEXIM's interest noted.
• A lien over the proceeds of the export transactions financed with NEXIM's interest noted.
• Marketable financial instruments.

The Participating Bank shall forward an application duly signed by at least two authorised signatories of the Bank on behalf of the exporter stating clearly the commodity to be stocked, quantity and quality, source, and price of procurement. Information on installed and existing production capacity of the exporter must be provided. The following documents must also accompany the application:

• Return on export finance portfolio;
• Copy(ies) of export contract(s).

Upon approval, the facility is disbursed to the participating bank either en bloc or in tranches as the case may be. The following documents are to be provided for this purpose by the participating bank:

• Promissory Note;
• Irrevocable Transfer Order;
• Letter of Undertaking from the Bank that if the exporter's stock reconciliation record is unacceptable to NEXIM, then NEXIM can exercise the right to recover the facility before its due date with penal charges.

The Bank shall submit to NEXIM the following documents:

• Copies of warehouse warrants for the items stocked (where applicable);
• Copy of insurance certificate for the items stocked against fire and burglary, etc.;
• Letter of hypothecation by which ownership of the stocks is transferred to the sponsoring bank;
• Monthly stock reconciliation.