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EXPORT CREDITS GUARANTEE DEPARTMENT

PO Box No 272 Aldermanbury House Aldermanbury London EC2P 2EL

Telex 88360x

Telephone 01-606 6699 ext 331

M Hawtin Esq

HM Treasury

Parliament Street

London SW1P 3AG

Your reference

Our reference

Date

12 October 1981

+ EXPORT

GUARANT

CREDITS

DEPARTM

CHINA:

GUANGDONG

When we met at DoI on Monday 5 October we agreed that it would be useful to hare some assessment of the subsidy cost inherent on supporting the UK bid for this business.

I have not received figures on the possible Westinghouse involvement and have not sought a detailed breakdown from GEC of their probable expenditure profile. Moreover our tables do not readily provide for a carencia so the "authorised" figures below are based on the following assumptions:-

Currency of loan:

Cost of funds:

Rate of Interest:

Sterling 16.5%

72.9% (from 1bill will be 15%)

Drawdown by equal monthly instalments over 8 years.

SUBSIDY ELEMENT AT NPV ASSUMING

Length of Credit UK Goods only UK plus/locals UK only plus

capitalisation

UK plus locals plus

capitalisation

10

12

15

35.84 37.20 38.85

42.16

44.79

52.69

43.76

45.71

46.54 48.55

54.75

57.25

My own best estimate of the affect of an accelerated drawdown on the cost of capitalisation of pre-commissioning interest (assuming in each case a 15 year repayment period) is that drawdown by equal instalments over 6 years would add around 5% to the subsidy cost while drawdown over 5 years might add as much as an additional 7 per cent. In all cases I have assumed that interest would be capitalised up to commissioning. Capitalisation to delivery would obviously be less costly but would remain a relatively expensive option.

R A RANSON

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between time wer drawing centes

+ Lefore repayments

start.

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