SCoTA — Quality issues and adjustments to the base price
As those readers familiar with the terms of the Standard Coal Trading Agreement (SCoTA) will know, the weighing/sampling/analysis regime set out in clause 9 of the current version of the SCoTA contract (version 8) will, if followed by the parties, produce analysis results which are binding on the parties and defined as the ‘Binding Results’. This bulletin addresses the position when the Binding Result(s) establishes that the shipment does not comply with contract specification.
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