Задание 1.Прочитайте и переведите диалог «Signing a Contract»

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 532.

Вариант 9

The British company is a regular importer of asbestos from Russia and has often dealt with the Russian trading organization. Mr. Brown has been instructed by his firm to sign another contract for asbestos.

Brown:Good afternoon! Nice to see you again, Mr. Petrov! You are looking well, I must say. How are things?

Petrov:Not bad, thank you. And how are you?

Brown:Fine, just fine. I always feel well in a beautiful weather like this. Well, I suppose we had better get down to business.

Petrov:Yes, certainly. You've come to sign another contract, haven't you?

Brown: That's right. For next year, actually.

Petrov:Do you agree to our usual terms of delivery and payment?

Brown: Yes, quite. As a matter of fact, I've come here to talk about the price. I'd like to say that the volume of business in the building industry in our country has dropped considerably. This affected the prices of a number of building materials. In this situation it's quite natural we ask you to revise your prices for asbestos.

Petrov:I'm afraid this is not sufficient reason for us to lower the prices.

Brown:But I must draw your attention to the fact that we wish to increase the purchases by a few thousand tons if you could offer us reduction in the price.

Petrov:I'm sorry to say, Mr. Brown, but we would not be able to make extra more supplies to you. We're planning to develop more industrial and housing projects. Taking these factors into account we could offer you the same amount as last years.

Brown:Mr. Petrov, we've been in business with you for a long time. Besides we've doubled our purchases over the past two years. So we would be grateful to you if you could reduce the price.

Petrov:All right. I think we could reduce it by 2%. But only on condition that the price is subject to further negotiations for the second half of the year.

Brown:That's fine. I suppose that's the best we can do today.