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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="3-604" title_number="3" title_name="Banking Institutions -- Commercial Banks" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Regulations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A commercial bank may accept for payment at a later date a draft issued in connection with a transaction that involves the importation, exportation, or domestic shipment of goods, if the draft:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is payable not more than 6 months after the date of acceptance; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>When accepted, is accompanied by a document of title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A commercial bank may accept a draft that a bank or banker in any foreign country or any possession or territory of the United States draws on the commercial bank to provide dollar exchange required by trade usage in the foreign country, possession, or territory if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The draft is payable not more than 3 months after the date of acceptance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount of the exchange does not exceed 50 percent of the unimpaired capital and surplus of the commercial bank; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>For any exchange that exceeds 10 percent of the unimpaired capital and surplus of the commercial bank, the draft is accompanied by a document of title or other adequate security.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
