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The Export-Import Bank of China (China EXIM) (China Eximbank)

Key facts

  • Established in 1994
  • Ownership: Public
Not Part of the OECD Not part of the Berne Union

Latest update: 03/12/2021

Products

  • Buyer credits
  • Supplier credits
  • Fixed asset import credit
  • Working capital import credit
  • Preferential facilities
  • On-lending business
  • Trade finance
  • Loans for Supporting Greater Openness

Buyer credits

Credits to foreign parties importing Chinese products, technology, and services. Eligible recipients: Foreign financial institutions, ministries of finance, host country authorized institutions, foreign companies, and ship owners. Eligibility for buyers:

  • Host country has a stable economic and political environment, and is creditworthy
  • Borrowers are creditworthy
  • Exported goods and services comply with Chinese regulations and rules


Supplier credits

Available to Chinese exporters. Tenor: Less than 5 years. Eligible goods and services:

  • Shipping: Export of ships, repair and modification of foreign ships, ship technology and parts (not available to entities from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan)
  • Equipment: Export of equipment and technical services
  • New and hi-tech products (e.g., software, intellectual property)
  • Mechanical and electronic products
  • Offshore project contracting
  • Outbound investment credit
  • Agricultural exports
  • Cultural products and services exporting for registered entities

Fixed asset import credit

Funding available to Chinese companies that import capital goods and in support of construction projects. Tenor: 2–3 years

Working capital import credit


Financing for the import of resources, energy, raw materials, spare parts, and semi-finished or finished products used for daily production of products. Tenor: 2–3 years

Preferential facilities  

Provides official aid to developing countries. Two Chinese government funded programs:

  • Concessional loans to borrowing countries’ governments
  • Preferential buyer credits to a foreign buyer (needs government approval)

On-lending business

China EXIM is the official in-country lender for preferential and mixed loans from foreign governments and financial institutions to the Chinese government. A mixed loan means the loan is the combination of the preferential loan from foreign governments and the export credit or credit from foreign banks

Recipients: Legal entities in China

Proceeds: Business contracts of projects, equipment, technology, and services under consultation contracts

Trade finance

International settlement: L/C services and support. 

Exchange settlement: Sale and purchase of spot foreign currencies against the CNY, sale and purchase of forward foreign currencies against the CNY, CNY swap, and foreign exchange swap

Letters of Guarantee: Provision of broad range of guarantees in support of Chinese exporters of goods and services

Loans for Supporting Greater Openness

Provides domestic enterprise with the local- and foreign currency loans to support China’s opening-up, promoting transformation and upgrading, realizing gradient transfer of processing trade, and undertaking infrastructure construction. Eligibility:

  • Borrowers comply with the laws and regulations of China
  • The borrower’s credit rating shall be BB (inclusive) if the Bank’s existing measures are adopted; can be relaxed to B if full guarantee from banks or strategic customers
  • Other examination, approval, recommendations or filing formalities for the proposed investment projects may be needed





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