A 20% CCF will be applied to both the issuing and confirming banks of short-term¹⁴ self-liquidating trade letters of credit arising from the movement of goods (e.g. documentary credits collateralised by the underlying shipment).

¹⁴ That is, with a maturity below one year. For further details see Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Treatment of trade finance under the Basel capital framework, October 2011, www.bis.org/publ/bcbs205.pdf.