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Consignment the right way: file a UCC financing statement.(Credit Column)(Uniform Commercial Code)

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| April 01, 2004 | Nathan, Bruce S. | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Association of Credit Management. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Frequently vendors enter into consignment arrangements with their customers. In a typical consignment, a vendor does not book a sale until the customer reports that it had sold or used the consigned goods.

In many instances, vendors intend the consignment arrangement to be a security device to increase the likelihood of payment from a financially distressed customer. However, all too frequently, consignment vendors belatedly discover that they had failed to satisfy all of the requirements for obtaining a special protected interest in their consigned goods, and end up being relegated to the status of general unsecured creditors in their customer's bankruptcy case. ...

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