Given that the export permit is the last stage in the process, typically that means the company would already have a contract in place with its buyer. The contract, as contracts will, specifies a deadline and a time for when the goods and services will be delivered. Simply put, if the permit is late, because it's been written into the contract on the assumption of a service standard, then the company will be missing that deadline. That could mean either penalties it has to pay and less money going to it, or on a future go-round, when the OEM is looking for a renewal, it may decide to switch to a supplier it thinks is more likely to meet its deadline, because that OEM, of course, has another buyer it is trying to send products to.
