As an overview, SEMCO shall not be liable for delays in shipment or delivery of goods, detention thereof, or loss or damage thereto, or otherwise, when due to Acts of God; acts of the BUYER; acts of civil or military authorities; governmental restrictions or embargoes; war; riot; fires; strikes; floods; epidemics; quarantine restrictions; default or delay by supplier; breakdown in manufacturing facilities, machinery or equipment; delays in transportation or difficulties in obtaining necessary materials; labor shortages, strikes, and lockouts involving SEMCO, or its agents, subcontractors, or manufacturing facilities, when such are caused beyond SEMCO’s reasonable control. No such event shall excuse BUYER’s obligation to remit payment due under this Contract. (Note detailed Force Majeure terms are listed below)

1. Unless otherwise agreed in the contract between the parties expressly or impliedly, where a party to a contract fails to perform one or more of its contractual duties, the consequences set out in paragraphs 4 to 9 of this Clause will follow if and to the extent that that party proves:
   [a] that its failure to perform was caused by an impediment beyond its reasonable control; and [b]that it could not reasonably have been expected to have taken the occurrence of the impediment into account at the time of the conclusion of the contract; and [c] that it could not reasonably have avoided or overcome the effects of the impediment.
2. Where a contracting party fails to perform one or more of its contractual duties because of default by a third party whom it has engaged to perform the whole or part of the contract, the consequences set out in paragraphs 4 to 9 of this Clause will only apply to the contracting party: [a] if and to the extent that the contracting party establishes the requirements set out in paragraph 1 of this Clause; and [b] if and to the extent that the contracting party proves that the same requirements apply to the third party.
3. In the absence of proof to the contrary and unless otherwise agreed in the contract between the parties expressly or impliedly, a party invoking this Clause shall be presumed to have established the conditions described in paragraph 1[a] and [b] of this Clause in case of the occurrence of one or more of the following impediments: [a]war (whether declared or not), armed conflict or the serious threat of same (including but not limited to hostile attack, blockade, military embargo), hostilities, invasion, act of a foreign enemy, extensive military mobilization; [b] civil war, riot rebellion and revolution, military or usurped power, insurrection, civil commotion or disorder, mob violence, act of civil disobedience; [c] act of terrorism, sabotage or piracy; [d] act of authority whether lawful or unlawful, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, curfew restriction, expropriation, compulsory acquisition, seizure of works, requisition, nationalization; [e] act of God, plague, epidemic, natural disaster such as but not limited to violent storm, cyclone, typhoon, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, earthquake, volcanic activity, landslide, tidal wave, tsunami, flood, damage or destruction by lightning, drought; [f] explosion, fire, destruction of machines, equipment, factories and of any kind of installation, prolonged break-down of transport, telecommunication or electric current; [g] general labor disturbance such as but not limited to boycott, strike and lock-out, go-slow, occupation of factories and premises.
4. A party successfully invoking this Clause is, subject to paragraph 6 below, relieved from its duty to perform its obligations under the contract from the time at which the impediment causes the failure to perform if notice thereof is given without delay or, if notice thereof is not given without delay, from the time at which notice thereof reaches the other party.
5. A party successfully invoking this Clause is, subject to paragraph 6 below, relieved from any liability in damages or any other contractual remedy for breach of contract from the time indicated in paragraph 4.
6. Where the effect of the impediment or event invoked is temporary, the consequences set out under paragraphs 4 and 5 above shall apply only insofar, to the extent that and as long as the impediment or the listed event invoked impedes performance by the party invoking this Clause of its contractual duties. Where this paragraph applies, the party invoking this Clause is under an obligation to notify the other party as soon as the impediment or listed event ceases to impede performance of its contractual duties.
7. A party invoking this Clause is under an obligation to take all reasonable means to limit the effect of the impediment or event invoked upon performance of its contractual duties.
8. Where the duration of the impediment invoked under paragraph 1 of this Clause or of the listed event invoked under paragraph 3 of this Clause has the effect of substantially depriving either or both of the contracting parties of what they were reasonably entitled to expect under the contract, either party has the right to terminate the contract by notification within a reasonable period to the other party.
9. Where paragraph 8 above applies and where either contracting party has, by reason of anything done by another contracting party in the performance of the contract, derived a benefit before the termination of the contract, the party deriving such a benefit shall be under a duty to pay to the other party a sum of money equivalent to the value of such benefit.

No such event shall excuse BUYER’s obligation to remit payment due under this Contract.