Facilities

Seller's credit after shipment


In order to finance companies with good background and experience in the field of knowledge based product export, ETDF pay for facilities in the format of “Supplier’s Credit post shipment” by receiving related export documents..

Terms :

  1. Exported product should be knowledge based.
  2. Note:export of knowledge based products can be done by knowledge based producer Company or any other independent intermediary export company.

  3. Supplier’s Credit post shipment facilities will pay after completion of export process.
  4. Facility ceiling: each company can get utmost 50% of export documents up to 6000 million Rials.
  5. Interest rate: 18% (with incentive rates)
  6. Repayment period: 6 up to 15 month
  7. Collaterals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.

Supplier’s Credit pre shipment


Working Capital is one of the important requirements of each company to maintain or promote company’s ability for continuous production. Due to sale promotion for growing companies, they totally need more raw materials in process inventory and final goods inventory. It especially affects export companies which are faced with time gaps of sending goods abroad and money transfer into country.
For this purpose, the Fund (ETDF) decided to pay working capital facilities in the format of “Supplier’s Credit pre shipment” to the companies with export plan or export contracts.

Terms :

  1. Export should be implemented by knowledge based or high tech company.
  2. Facility ceiling: 5000 million Rials for each year.
  3. Interest rate: 18% (with incentive rates)
  4. Repayment period: 6 up to 15 month
  5. Collarerals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.

Domestic buyer’s credit


In order to support knowledge based exporter companies with the aim of supplying liquidity from domestic sale, along with export production, the Fund (ETDF) decided to finance domestic buyers in format of leasing (hire purchase).

Terms :

  1. Company should be knowledge based or high tech.
  2. Trading product should be a knowledge based one.
  3. Facility ceiling: 5000 million Rials for each year.
  4. Interest rate: 18-22 percent
  5. Repayment period: 6 up to 18 month
  6. Collaterals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.

Technology transfer


Technology transfer is the process of purchasing and transferring technology from abroad into country. Technology transfer agreement is a contract between domestic knowledge based company and foreign technology Owner Company.
The Fund (ETDF), provides supportive facilities at preferential rates, with approach of technology promotion for production and services companies and through new global technologies in the acceptable framework for Iran Presidential Deputy of Science and Technology.

Terms :

  1. Company should be knowledge based or high tech with acceptable financial and technical level in related technology scope.
  2. Documentation should represent the absence of technical knowledge related to this area in the country.
  3. Authentication of technology attraction condition should be implemented by the Fund assessment team.
  4. Facility ceiling: each company can get utmost 70% of technology transfer value up to 6000 million Rials.
  5. Interest rate: 14%
  6. Payment: in accordance with time and cost Gantt chart.
  7. Repayment period: 24 month (involves 0 up to 6 month breathing space)
  8. Collaterals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.

Export Management Company (EMC)


Export Management Company is an independent intermediary export company to help economic enterprises in order to enter global market and increase amount of goods and services export. These companies can manage all or a part of economic enterprises export activities especially for the small and medium sized enterprises. These companies are totally known as EMCs.
The Fund (ETDF), gives facilities with preferential interest rate to empower and develop business of these companies.

Terms :

  1. EMC Company should have minimum grade of 3 from Iran Trade Promotion Organization.
  2. Facility ceiling: 5000 million Rials for each company.
  3. Interest rate: 10-18percent
  4. Payment: in accordance with time and cost Gantt chart.
  5. Repayment period: 12 up to 36 month (involves 0 up to 12 month breathing space)
  6. Collaterals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.

Credit level facilities


The Fund (ETDF) arranges a one stage comprehensive assessment of company in order to accelerate companies financing procedure. After one stage comprehensive assessment, companies can immediately request for facilities by sending a formal application letter and get the financial sources within a week.

Terms :

  1. Company should be knowledge based exporter.
  2. Facility ceiling: 5000 million Rials for each company.
  3. Interest rate: 14%
  4. Payment: in one stage
  5. Validity duration: 12 months from the date of approval
  6. Facility condition: utmost 2 month and new request is allowed
  7. Collaterals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.

Foreign exhibition attendance


In order to encourage and support knowledge based companies to attend foreign exhibitions as well as dispatching board of technology to other countries for developing technical, economical and commercial relationships, the Fund considered to give facilities at low interest rate.

Terms :

  1. Knowledge based company should have ERA (Export Readiness Assessment) rank.
  2. Company’s scope of work should be related to the exhibition.
  3. Facility ceiling: utmost 70% of trip cost up to 200 million Rials for each company.
  4. Interest rate: 4% mortgage interest rate
  5. Payment: in one stage
  6. Repayment period: 6 month
  7. Collaterals: according to credit rating of company and board of directors.