LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSFER OF RIGHTS TO COLLECT RECEIVABLES THROUGH COLLECTION TRUST DEEDS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISPUTES
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The increasingly complex practice of international trade demands effective legal instruments to manage cross-jurisdictional receivable risks. One developing instrument is the Collection Trust Deed (CTD), a deed for the assignment of collection rights from the original creditor to a third party acting as collecting agent or trustee. Issues arise because Indonesia's civil law system does not recognize the concept of trust as developed in common law tradition, despite the fact that CTD has been widely used by foreign export credit insurance institutions such as Sinosure, NEXI, and EXIM Bank in handling defaults by Indonesian importers. This research aims to analyze the legal regulation of collection rights assignment through Collection Trust Deeds in the international trade system, as well as dispute settlement mechanisms and legal protection for creditors. The research uses a normative juridical method with statutory, conceptual, and comparative approaches, through examination of the Indonesian Civil Code, Law Number 30 of 1999 on Arbitration, the 1958 New York Convention, the UNCITRAL Convention on the Assignment of Receivables 2001, and the UNIDROIT Principles 2016. The results show that CTD can be qualified as a sui generis agreement valid under the principle of freedom of contract (Article 1338 in conjunction with 1320 of the Indonesian Civil Code), dispute resolution is more effectively conducted through international arbitration with enforceability of awards under the 1958 New York Convention, and legal protection for creditors can be enforced through the fiduciary duty of the collecting agent based on the principle of good faith. National legal reform is needed to accommodate modern contractual instruments such as CTD to ensure legal certainty that is responsive to the dynamics of international trade.
Keywords:
Assignment of Receivables Collection Trust Deed Fiduciary Duty International Arbitration International Trade.References
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