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# Intelligence: Food & Beverage Import in Chile

## Industry Context

- **Payment pressure:** Perishability creates urgency; Demurrage extremely costly for fresh goods

- **Operational control:** container tracking for demurrage avoidance; Fast EUR payments via SEPA

## Country Context

- **Use case:** Pay Chilean suppliers for copper, wine, fruit, salmon, lithium

- **Settlement:** T+0 (2.3s avg within Unicorn network)

- **Banking:** **RUT + Bank Code + Account** (RUT (tax ID), bank code, and account number)

- **Regulatory:** Banco Central de Chile regulations; Servicio Nacional de Aduanas documentation

## Key Industries in Country

- Mining

- Agriculture

- Wine

- Salmon

- Lithium