Sources

SRC-484

EKN, Exportkreditnämnden, the Swedish Export Credits Guarantee Board, country page for Syria: country risk classification and EKN's risk assessment

Source ID: SRC-484
Citation: EKN, Exportkreditnämnden, the Swedish Export Credits Guarantee Board, country page for Syria: country risk classification and EKN's risk assessment
URL or path: https://www.ekn.se/en/countries/countries--continents/compare-countries/syria/; research/SRC-AQ73_eca_EKN_syria2.txt
Type: Official statement of cover policy by a national export credit agency
Hierarchy tier: 2
Accessed: 2026-09-07
Snapshot: Text archived 7 September 2026, 70,948 bytes retrieved
Claims: Chapter 10 export credit section; ECA-001
Status: READ

Version history

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READ 7 SEPTEMBER 2026. 'Syria. Category 7 of 7.' THE COVER MATRIX IS FOUR BUYER TYPES BY TWO TENORS AND IT IS NOT UNIFORM. Sovereign short and long: Normally off cover. Public short and long: Normally off cover. Bank long: Normally off cover. Corporate short and long: Normally off cover. BANK RISK AT SHORT TENOR: 'Restrictive risk assessment', which the page's own key defines as a policy carrying predefined restrictions, as distinct from 'Normally off cover'. SO SEVEN OF EIGHT CELLS ARE OFF COVER AND ONE IS NOT, and any sentence saying Sweden is closed to Syria is wrong at the eighth cell. CAUTION ON THE PHRASE 'Category 7 of 7': IT IS EKN'S OWN AND IT IS NOT THE OECD'S SCALE, which runs 0 to 7 and therefore has eight bands. The v24 pass carried EKN's phrasing onto the OECD and produced a factual error, B3 of the v24 diff review.