Examples of credit terms

• Information about interest rates and credit terms and conditions will be standardised to make it easier to compare offers.

• I have always been sceptical about greatly extending credit terms.

• Competition in shipbuilding is keen, and orders go to the most attractive quotations for quality, price, credit terms, delivery dates and so on.

• In the credit terms which it advanced and the prices it charged, it was much less subject to political pressure.

• Because we came to the conclusion, with regret, that economic circumstances did not permit us to offer credit terms.

• We have introduced interest relief grants to help with the problem of credit terms; we have acted in both education and training.

• We now have perfectly good and competitive credit terms.

• The offering of incentive-like discounts, favourable credit terms or any other recognised means of promoting sales, is a normal part of competition.

• It is the commissioners' policy to pay their suppliers within the agreed credit terms.

• It would be a pity to have the two competing with each other on the basis of credit terms.

• Provisional estimates of these costs for 1999 are presented in the table, as are equivalent bills for customers on standard credit terms.

• It is not in our interests to give longer credit terms generally so that we stand out of our money for a longer time.

• We always seek to be as helpful as we can in granting credit terms, but credit terms and assistance are outwith this intervention scheme.

• Often credit terms are a major factor in attracting new shipping business.

• I am, however, not in a position to indicate the credit terms upon which individual orders have been placed.