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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Help for two sentences

Please find the attached LC copy for your reference. You shall bear the half LC opening cost of USDxxx same as last shipment.

The customer would like to bring back the shipment to early of June, please help.
  

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First, I must assume the addressee knows what LC is. Avoid abbreviations unless you are certain they will be understood. Please find the attached LC copy for your reference.

— Cwtch

  • First, I must assume the addressee knows what LC is.
  • Avoid abbreviations unless you are certain they will be understood.
  • Please find the attached LC copy for your reference.
  • 00.
  • USDxxx is OK if the letter is not to someone in the US.
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First, I must assume the addressee knows what LC is. Avoid abbreviations unless you are certain they will be understood.

Please find the attached LC copy for your reference. You shall bear the half of the LC opening cost of USDxxx, same as last shipment, which is $50.00.

USDxxx is OK if the letter is not to someone in the US. If it is to someone in the US
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Presumably an LC is a "letter of credit", and I believe using the abbreviation LC is quite common in international trade. Likewise, USD is a standard code for "US dollars".
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YankeePresumably an LC is a "letter of credit", and I believe using the abbreviation LC is quite common in international trade. Likewise, USD is a standard code for "US dollars".


Letter of credit. I did not know that.

The abbreviations are fine if they will be understood by the audience. We all structure our speech and writing to the
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Hi Cwtch

I agree with you completely that you have to be very careful when using abbreviations. And I also think it would be a good idea to write out "letter of credit" (rather than abbreviate) when you are communicating for the very first time with someone about an LC.

However, I also think this sort of message is something that people dealing with the details of internationa
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Yankee
Personally, I don't think questions about this sort of business writing belong in the Basic English Grammar Questions forum. To me, it's anything but "basic". This sort of stuff is quite specialized, so I am going to move this thread to the Business and Finance English forum.


I agree.
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