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<li style="line-height:1.50;"><font class="ws12" face="Calibri" color="#FFFFFF">This field specifies the documentary credit number which has been assigned by the Sender.</font></li>
<li style="line-height:1.50;"><font class="ws12" face="Calibri" color="#FFFFFF">Issuing banks and confirming banks must understand that absense of letter of credit numbers on the documents is not a valid ground for a refusal.&nbsp;</font></li>
<li style="line-height:1.50;"><font class="ws12" face="Calibri" color="#FFFFFF">It should be pointed out that the request for insertion of letter of credit numbers is usually at the instigation of the issuing bank to facilitate the collation of documents when one or more go astray.&nbsp;</font></li>
<li style="line-height:1.50;"><font class="ws12" face="Calibri" color="#FFFFFF">The ICC has commented several times in the past that&nbsp;</font>
  <font class="ws12" face="Calibri" color="#FFFFFF"><b><u>a refusal based on the absence of a L/C number on a document, where requested in the L/C, is not grounds for refusal.</u></b></font></li>
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        <h3>Sample Field 20: Documentary Credit Number</h3>
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