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Quality claims, deductions and rejection

When the lab result doesn't match the deal: how quality claims usually arise, how deductions are worked out, and what makes a claim hold up.

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A quality claim arises when the coal received tests below what was agreed — most often a lower GCV, or higher ash or moisture. Many contracts set a price adjustment for each step below the agreed figure, a tolerance within which nothing changes, and a limit beyond which the buyer may reject the load.

Deductions are only as good as the test behind them. The sample must represent the lot, the lab and method must be agreed, and the two reports being compared must be on the same basis (as received or air-dried). Many disputes turn out to be a basis or sampling difference rather than a quality difference.

Once agreed, a deduction is usually settled with a debit or credit note against the invoice, rather than by changing the original invoice.

More detail

Keeping a referee sample — a sealed portion of the sample held for re-testing — lets a disputed result be checked by an agreed third lab instead of argued about.

Supplier-side claims work the same way in reverse: the lab report on receipt, against the quality the supplier declared, is the evidence.

Common confusion

A lower GCV on an as-received report may be moisture, not poorer coal — compare on the same basis before claiming.

What it means if you trade coal

Write the tolerance, the deduction scale, the rejection limit, the lab and the basis into the terms — before the coal moves.

How Coal Boss handles this · In Coal Boss today, with limits

The quality report works out deductions where deduction rules are set up; the invoice is not changed automatically — debit or credit notes are raised by the user.

From Coal Boss's verified product record — separate from the explanation above.

Hinglish mein, short mein

Quality claim tab banta hai jab aaya hua coal tay quality se kam nikle — aksar GCV kam ya ash/nami zyada. Contract mein aksar tolerance, har kami pe katauti aur rejection ki limit likhi hoti hai. Claim tabhi tikta hai jab sample poore lot jaisa ho, lab aur tareeka tay ho, aur dono report ek hi basis pe hon. Tay katauti aam taur pe debit ya credit note se hoti hai.

Sources

Coal Boss explanation of common trade practice — not a rule. Every business agrees its own terms.

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