ECGC to review rating of Ukraine

Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India determines the premium to be paid on the basis of a ranking from A to D. The lower the ranking the higher the premium

The Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC) would review the rating of Ukraine in view of the current crisis in the country.

“It  will be done shortly,” ECGC chairman and managing director, N Shankar, told mediapersons here today.

Ukraine is the second largest trading partner of India among the Commonwealth of Independent States accounting for a total trade of $ 3.18 billion in 2012-13.

The current crisis involves the Crimean peninsula, a multi-ethnic region which until February 2014 was administered by Ukraine. Currently, the peninsula is administered by the Russian Federation as the Crimean Federal District leading to a face-off between the two countries.

The state-owned ECGC, which provides export credit insurance facilities to exporters and banks, determines the premium to be paid on the basis of a ranking from A to D.  The lower the ranking the higher the premium.

Shanker, however, did not disclose what would be the new ranking of Ukraine. “I do not want to guess what the ranking would be,” he said  talking on the sidelines of the ECGC’s bank business branch inauguration programme.

ECGC, which has a network of 62 offices at present, proposes to open three branches shortly in Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kollam in Kerala.