EXHIBIT 4.1
Vertraulich / Confidential Postanschrift:
Korona-Haushaltswaren GmbH & Co. KG 1531
- Geschaftsleitung- 37005 Gottingen
Auf d. Xxxxxxxxxxx 0-0
00000 Xxxxxxxxx
Date: 30 August 2004
Credit Agreement
Account nos. 0000000 and 0000000 with our Northeim branch
Dear Sirs,
Referring to our credit agreement from 8 January 2004 and to the talks conducted
with you, we are pleased to confirm our willingness supplementing to our
prementioned credit agreement to grant you an operating credit amounting to
(euro)2,000,000.00
(in words: (euro) two million).
This credit will be valid until 30 July 2005. Notwithstanding the rights of
termination resulting from the "General Terms and Conditions", either the Bank
or the Customer shall be entitled to terminate the credit at any time without
prior notice and without stating any reasons. When exercising the right of
termination, the Bank will duly consider the legitimate interests of the
Customer and grant him a reasonable settlement period.
The credit may be used via the accounts nos. 0000000 and 0000000.
At present and pending further notice, we charge you an interest rate of 5.0 %
p.a. for drawn credit amounts. Interest is due for payment at the end of each
quarter for the corresponding current quarter.
Additionally, we charge you a credit commission of 0.2 % p.a. for the granted
credit line.
Pending further notice. this credit can be used at choice via special credit
schemes, such as money market operations, eligible commercial bills with xxxx
debtors of our consent and of excellent credit standing, USD credits (max. 30%
of the line), forward exchange dealings and the provision of guarantees and
documentary credits. Within the scope of the credit line, we will also buy
promissory notes issued by you for Commerzbank AG as payee, or notes showing
another company or self-employed person with registered office in Germany as
party to the xxxx and which you have endorsed to us. The individual features of
the special credit schemes, such as amount / utilization, term, conditions, must
be agreed with us individually before concluding a deal.
The credit line will still unchanged also be available for the conclusion of OTC
foreign exchange transactions (spot, futures, options on foreign exchange
transactions) with a maximum term at 7 months. Foreign exchange transactions
with a term exceeding the above stated credit time limit of 30 July 2005 are to
be agreed individually; they must also be covered by collateral. In this
respect, we would like to refer to our provisions: on page 3 of our letter from
8 January 2004.
The following collateral shall serve to cover the granted credit line:
EUR 2,000,000.00 Standby Letter of Credit of Hang Seng Bank Ltd., Hong Kong,
applicant Bonso Electronics Ltd., dated 13 August 2004, time limit now 1
September 2005.
For details and conditions, please refer to the Letter of Credit. Other assets
serve as collateral as stipulated under item 14 of our "General Terms and
Conditions".
We would like to be informed no later than 10 July 2005 about any extension of
the letter of credit (and its future amount) by a timely and binding extension,
letter of the credit-opening bank, so that we can initiate the necessary steps
within our bank for extending the credit in due time before it expires.
Our General Terms and Conditions" shall apply additionally; they are on integral
part of our Credit Confirmation.
To cover our expenses occurred by the credit examination and by entering into
contact with Hong Kong in connection with granting this credit, we will charge
you with an amount of (euro)750,00 which we will debit to your account no.
0000000.00.
The Bank is allowed to transfer the data entry and structuring of all positions
of the respective annual balances and group balances to an external Service
Enterprise. Bank and Service Enterprise have stipulated an agreement of
confidentiality. The data entry and structuring base on the guideline of the
Bank.
All other terms and conditions of our credit agreement from 8 January 2004 are
further on valid.
Please confirm by duly signing and returning the enclosed copy that you consent
to the stipulations of this Agreement and that you have received our enclosed
"General Terms and Conditions".
We are looking forward to continuing our pleasant business relationship.
Your sincerely,
COMMERRZBANK
Aktiengesellschaft
Filliate Gottingen
/s/_________________________________________
We consent to all stipulations of the above document.
Langgoens, (Date) 200904 /s/______________________________
(Seal and Signatures
Korona - Haushaltswaren GmbH & Co. KG
We consent to the content of the above letter as well as to the credit agreement
from 8 January 2004 and confirm our acceptance of the stipulation referring to
us.
Hong Kong, (Date) 8th Nov. 2004 /s/______________________________
(Seal and Signature
Bonso Electronics International Inc.)
