PERU SHORT-TERM TRADE CREDIT UP TO 430 MLN DLRS Peru's short-term foreign trade credit lines, regarded as vital to ensure smooth foreign commercial transactions, have more than doubled to 430 mln dollars under the 20-month government of president Alan Garcia. Central bank general manager Hector Neyra told reporters many of the credits were 90-day. Trade credits were 210 mln dlrs when Garcia took office in 1985 announcing a tough stance limiting foreign debt repayments to 10 pct of export earnings. Neyra told Reuters Peru was current on interest payments on short-term debt, including trade credit lines and on about 750 mln dlrs in so-called "working capital" credits. Trade credit lines were 880 mln dlrs in 1982, but fell in 1984 when Peru stopped some payments to private foreign banks.