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| November 01, 2006 | Nathan, Bruce S. | COPYRIGHT 2006 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

In a tolling arrangement, a vendor usually supplies raw materials to a commodity processor for conversion into finished product. The processor then delivers the finished or partially finished product to the supplier, or the supplier's designee, and charges the supplier a fee for the processor's services.

In many tolling arrangements, both the material supplier and the processor assume-and their contracts frequently provide--that the supplier retains ownership of the raw materials delivered to the processor, and the finished or semi-finished product of such new materials, in the processor's possession. However, these expectations might be shattered where the ...

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