CNH RECEIVABLES INC
8-K/A, 2000-03-31
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM 8-K/A

                             Current Report Pursuant
                          to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                         Securities Exchange Act of 1934



Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported)   March 16, 2000
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                              CNH RECEIVABLES INC.
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               (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)



          Delaware                     333-82741               76-0439709
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(State or Other Jurisdiction          (Commission             (IRS Employer
     of Incorporation)                 File Number)         Identification No.)



475 Half Day Road, Lincolnshire, Illinois                              60069
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                             (Zip Code)



Registrant's telephone number, including area code     (847) 955-1002
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         (Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)




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Item 5.   Other Events

         This Amendment on Form 8-K/A amends the Form 8-K filed March 30, 2000
and supplements the Indenture filed as exhibit 4.1 thereto, with the filing of
the Definitions attached hereto as exhibit 4.1/A, which has been included as
Appendix A to the Indenture.


Item 7.  Financial Statements and Exhibits

         (c) Exhibits.



Exhibit
   No.        Document Description
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4.1/A        Definitions included as Appendix A to the Indenture dated as
             of March 1, 2000, between CNH Equipment Trust 2000-A
             and Harris Trust and Savings Bank.




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                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                           CNH RECEIVABLES INC.
                                               (Registrant)




Dated: March 31, 2000                      By: /s/ Ralph A. Than
                                               -----------------
                                               Ralph A. Than
                                               Vice President and Treasurer



















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                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS



Exhibit       Sequential
  No.         Document Description
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4.1/A        Definitions included as Appendix A to the Indenture dated as
             of March 1, 2000, between CNH Equipment Trust 2000-A
             and Harris Trust and Savings Bank.















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                                           APPENDIX A

                                           Definitions


         "A-1 Note"  means  any  of  the  Issuer's 6.178% Class A-1 Asset Backed
Notes.

         "A-1 Note Final  Scheduled  Maturity  Date" means April 9, 2001 Payment
Date.

         "A-1 Note Rate" means 6.178% per annum, computed on the basis of actual
days elapsed and a 360-day year.

         "A-1 Noteholders" means the holders of record of the A-1 Notes.

         "A-2  Note"  means any of the  Issuer's  6.80%  Class A-2 Asset  Backed
Notes.

         "A-2 Note Final Scheduled  Maturity Date" means the August 2003 Payment
Date.

         "A-2 Note Rate" means 6.80% per annum,  computed on the basis of a 360-
day year of twelve 30-day months.

         "A-2 Noteholders" means the holders of record of the A-2 Notes.

         "A-3  Note"  means any of the  Issuer's  7.14%  Class A-3 Asset  Backed
Notes.

         "A-3 Note Final Scheduled  Maturity Date" means the August 2004 Payment
Date.

         "A-3 Note Rate" means 7.14% per annum,  computed on the basis of a 360-
day year of twelve 30-day months.

         "A-3 Noteholders" means the holders of record of the A-3 Notes.

         "A-4  Note"  means any of the  Issuer's  7.34%  Class A-4 Asset  Backed
Notes.

         "A-4 Note  Final  Scheduled  Maturity  Date"  means the  February  2007
Payment Date.

         "A-4 Note Rate" means 7.34% per annum,  computed on the basis of a 360-
day year of twelve 30-day months.


                                               A-1

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         "A-4 Noteholders" means the holders of record of the A-4 Notes.

         "Act" is defined in Section 11.3(a) of the Indenture.

         "Administration Agreement" means the Administration Agreement, dated as
of March 1, 2000, among the Administrator, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.

         "Administration  Fee"  means  the  fee  payable  to  the  Administrator
pursuant to Section 3 of the Administration Agreement.

         "Administrator" means Case Credit Corporation,  a Delaware corporation,
or any successor Administrator under the Administration Agreement.

         "Affiliate"  means,  with respect to any  specified  Person,  any other
Person  controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified
Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to
any specified  Person means the power to direct the  management  and policies of
such Person,  directly or  indirectly,  whether  through the ownership of voting
securities,   by  contract  or  otherwise;   and  the  terms  "controlling"  and
"controlled" have meanings  correlative to the foregoing.  The term "Affiliated"
has a correlative meaning.

         "Amount  Financed"  with  respect  to a  Receivable  (including  an  NH
Receivable)  means the amount advanced under such Receivable toward the purchase
price of the Financed Equipment and any related costs, including the Termination
Value, and any insurance financed thereby.

         "Annual  Percentage  Rate" or "APR" of a  Receivable  (including  an NH
Receivable)  means, with respect to a Retail  Installment  Contract,  the annual
rate of finance  charges  stated in the related  Contract and, with respect to a
Lease,  the  implicit  annual  rate of finance  charges  used to  determine  the
periodic rental payments stated in the related Contract,  adjusted to reflect an
annual yield, compounded monthly.

         "Authorized  Officer" means, with respect to the Issuer, any officer of
the Trustee who is authorized to act for the Trustee in matters  relating to the
Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the
Trustee  to the  Indenture  Trustee  on the  Closing  Date (as such  list may be
modified  or  supplemented  from time to time  thereafter)  and,  so long as the
Administration Agreement is in effect, any Vice President or more senior officer
of the  Administrator  who is authorized to act for the Administrator in matters
relating to the Issuer and to be acted upon by the Administrator pursuant to the
Administration  Agreement  and  who is  identified  on the  list  of  Authorized
Officers  delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing
Date (in each case as such list may be  modified  or  supplemented  from time to
time thereafter).

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         "Basic  Documents" means the Certificate of Trust, the Trust Agreement,
the Sale Agreement,  the Purchase Agreement,  the Sale and Servicing  Agreement,
the Indenture,  the Administration  Agreement, the Note Depositary Agreement and
other documents and certificates delivered in connection therewith.

         "Benefit Plan" is defined in Section 3.4 of the Trust Agreement.

         "Book-Entry  Notes"  means a  beneficial  interest  in the  Notes  of a
particular  Class,  ownership  and transfers of which shall be made through book
entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.10 of the Indenture.

         "Business  Day" means any day other than a Saturday,  a Sunday or a day
on which banking institutions or trust companies in The City of New York and The
City of Chicago,  Illinois are  authorized  or obligated by law,  regulation  or
executive order to remain closed.

         "Case"  means  Case  Corporation,  a  Delaware  corporation,   and  its
successors and assigns.

         "Case Credit" means Case Credit  Corporation,  a Delaware  corporation,
and its successors and assigns.

         "Certificate  Balance"  equals,  initially,  $100,000 and,  thereafter,
equals such amount  reduced by all amounts  allocable  to  principal  previously
distributed to Certificateholders.

         "Certificate  Distribution  Account"  is defined in Section  5.1 of the
Trust Agreement.

         "Certificate of Trust" means the Certificate of Trust  substantially in
the form of Exhibit B to the Trust  Agreement to be filed for the Trust pursuant
to Section 3810(a) of the Trust Statute.

         "Certificate  Pool  Factor"  means,  as of the close of business on any
Payment Date, the Certificate Balance divided by the initial Certificate Balance
(carried  out to the seventh  decimal  place).  The  Certificate  Pool Factor is
1.0000000  as of the Closing  Date,  and,  thereafter,  will  decline to reflect
reductions in the Certificate Balance.

         "Certificate  Register" and "Certificate  Registrar" means the register
mentioned  and the  registrar  appointed  pursuant  to Section  3.4 of the Trust
Agreement.


                                               A-3

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         "Certificated  Security"  has the meaning  assigned  thereto in Section
8-102(a)(4) of Article 8 of the UCC.

         "Certificateholder" means a Person in whose name a Trust Certificate is
registered.

         "Certificateholders'  Distributable  Amount" means, with respect to any
Payment Date, the sum of the Certificateholders' Monthly Principal Distributable
Amount and the Certificateholders' Interest Distributable Amount.

         "Certificateholders' Interest Distributable Amount" means, with respect
to any Payment Date (the "current Payment Date") the sum of (a) interest accrued
from and  including  the  preceding  Payment  Date (or, in the case of the first
Payment Date, the Closing Date) to but excluding the current Payment Date at the
Pass-Through Rate on the Certificate Balance on the preceding Payment Date after
giving effect to all changes therein on such preceding Payment Date, except that
during the Funding Period no interest will accrue on the  Pre-Funded  Percentage
of the Certificate Balance, plus (b) the Certificateholders'  Interest Shortfall
for the current Payment Date.

         "Certificateholders'  Interest  Shortfall"  means,  with respect to any
Payment Date (the "current Payment Date"), the excess of the Certificateholders'
Interest  Distributable Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount in
respect of interest that was actually deposited in the Certificate  Distribution
Account on such  preceding  Payment Date,  plus interest on such excess,  to the
extent  permitted by law, at the Pass-Through  Rate from such preceding  Payment
Date to but excluding the current Payment Date.

         "Certificateholders'  Monthly  Principal  Distributable  Amount" means,
with respect to any payment date,  the excess of (1) the sum of the  outstanding
principal  balances  of the Class A Notes and the  Class B Notes  (after  giving
effect to payments on the Class A Notes and Class B Notes on such payment  date)
and the  Certificates;  provided  however,  that for  purposes of the  foregoing
calculation  any  Remaining  Pre-  Funded  Amount  shall be  deemed to have been
withdrawn  from the  Pre-Funding  Account as of the beginning of the  Collection
Period during which such Remaining  Pre-Funded  Amount is  transferred  from the
Pre-Funding  Account to the Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.7(b) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, minus (2) 100% of the sum of (x) the Pool Balance,
and (y) any amounts on deposit in the Pre- Funding Account;  provided,  however,
in no event shall the Certificateholders' Monthly Principal Distributable Amount
exceed the outstanding amount of Certificates.

         "Certificates"  means the Trust  Certificates  (as defined in the Trust
Agreement).

                                               A-4

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         "Class" means any class of Notes.

         "Class A Noteholder" means any holder of a Class A Note.

         "Class A Noteholders'  Monthly Principal  Distributable  Amount" means,
with  respect to any Payment  Date (a) on which any  principal  of the A-1 Notes
remains  outstanding  as of the  related  record  date,  the  greater of (1) the
aggregate  scheduled  principal payments on the Receivables  received during the
related  Collection  Period and (2) the excess of (x) of sum of the  outstanding
Principal Balance of the Class A Notes and the Certificates minus (y) 96% of the
sum of (I) the Pool  Balance and (II) any amounts on deposit in the  Pre-Funding
Account,  in each  case as of the end of the  immediately  preceding  Collection
Period,  and (b) after the Payment Date on which the A-1 Notes have been reduced
to zero, the excess of (1) the sum of the outstanding  Principal  Balance of the
Class A Notes  and the  Certificates  minus  (2) 96% of the sum of (I) the  Pool
Balance and (II) any amounts on deposit in the Pre-Funding Account, in each case
as of the end of the immediately preceding Collection Period; provided, however,
that in no event shall the Class A Noteholders' Monthly Principal  Distributable
Amount exceed the  Outstanding  Amount of Class A Notes;  and provided  further,
that for purposes of the foregoing  calculation any Remaining  Pre-Funded Amount
shall be deemed to have been  withdrawn from the  Pre-Funding  Account as of the
beginning of the Collection Period during which such Remaining Pre-Funded Amount
is transferred from the Pre-Funding  Account to the Collection  Account pursuant
to Section 5.7(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Class A Notes" means the A-1 Notes,  the A-2 Notes,  the A-3 Notes and
the A-4 Notes.

         "Class B Note" means any of the  Issuer's  7.32%  Class B Asset  Backed
Notes.

         "Class B Note Rate" means  7.32% per annum,  computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

         "Class B Noteholder" means any holder of a Class B Note.

         "Class B Noteholders'  Monthly Principal  Distributable  Amount" means,
with respect to any Payment Date,  the excess of (1) the sum of the  outstanding
Principal  Balance of the Class A Notes (after  giving effect to payments on the
Class A Notes on such  Payment  Date),  the Class B Notes  and the  Certificates
minus  (2)  100% of the sum of (x) the  Pool  Balance,  and (y) any  amounts  on
deposit  in  the  Pre-Funding  Account,  in  each  case  as of  the  end  of the
immediately  preceding Collection Period;  provided,  however, in no event shall
the Class B  Noteholders'  Monthly  Principal  Distributable  Amount  exceed the
Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes; and provided further, that for purposes
of the foregoing calculation any Remaining Pre- Funded Amount shall be deemed to
have been withdrawn from the Pre-Funding

                                               A-5

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Account as of the beginning of the Collection Period during which such Remaining
Pre-Funded Amount is transferred from the Pre-Funding  Account to the Collection
Account pursuant to Section 5.7(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Class B Note Final  Scheduled  Maturity  Date" means the February 2007
Payment Date.

         "Class  Interest  Amount" means,  with respect to any Payment Date (the
"current  Payment  Date") and any Class of Notes,  an amount equal to the sum of
(a) the  aggregate  amount of  interest  accrued  on that  Class of Notes at the
applicable  Interest Rate from and including the preceding  Payment Date (or, in
the case of the initial  Payment  Date,  from and including the Closing Date) to
but excluding the current Payment Date plus (b) the Class Interest Shortfall for
that Class of Notes and the current Payment Date.

         "Class Interest Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment Date (the
"current Payment Date") and any Class of Notes, the excess of the Class Interest
Amount for the preceding  Payment Date over the amount in respect of interest on
that Class of Notes that was actually deposited in the Note Distribution Account
on such  preceding  Payment Date,  plus  interest on such excess,  to the extent
permitted by law, at a rate per annum equal to the  Interest  Rate on that Class
of Notes,  from such preceding Payment Date to but excluding the current Payment
Date.

         "Class Principal Distributable Amount" means, with respect to any Class
of Class A Notes on a  Payment  Date,  the  remainder,  if any,  of the  Class A
Noteholders' Monthly Principal  Distributable Amount for that Payment Date after
subtracting the Class Principal  Distributable  Amount for each Class of Class A
Notes having priority of payment over such Class of Class A Notes; provided that
(a) in no event  shall the Class  Principal  Distributable  Amount for any Class
exceed the outstanding principal amount of that Class, (b) on the A-1 Note Final
Scheduled  Maturity Date, the Class Principal  Distributable  Amount for the A-1
Notes will  include  the amount,  to the extent of  available  funds,  necessary
(after  giving  effect  to  the  other  amounts  to be  deposited  in  the  Note
Distribution  Account on such Payment Date and allocable to principal) to reduce
the  outstanding  principal  amount  of the A-1  Notes  to  zero  and (c) on the
applicable  final  scheduled  maturity date, the Class  Principal  Distributable
Amount for each other Class of Class A Notes will  include  the  amount,  to the
extent of available  funds,  necessary (after giving effect to the other amounts
to be  deposited  in the Note  Distribution  Account  on such  Payment  Date and
allocable to principal) to reduce the outstanding principal amount of such Class
of Notes to zero. For purposes of the foregoing,  the various Classes of Class A
Notes shall have the following priority (beginning with the highest priority and
descending to the lowest):  the A-1 Notes,  the A-2 Notes, the A-3 Notes and the
A-4 Notes.


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         "Clearing  Agency"  means an  organization  registered  as a  "clearing
agency"  pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act that has been designated as
the "Clearing Agency" for purposes of the Indenture.

         "Clearing  Agency  Participant"  means a broker,  dealer,  bank,  other
financial  institution  or other  Person  for whom from time to time a  Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.

         "Closing Date" means March 16, 2000.

         "CNH Global" means CNH Global N.V., a company organized in the
Kingdom of The Netherlands, and its successors and assigns.

         "CNHR" means CNH Receivables Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its
successors in interest to the extent permitted hereunder.

         "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time, and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

         "Collateral" is defined in the Granting Clause of the Indenture.

         "Collection Account" means the account designated as such,  established
and maintained pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Collection Period" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the period
from and including the end of the  preceding  Collection  Period (or, if for the
first Payment Date,  the day after the Initial Cutoff Date) to and including the
last day of the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which the Payment
Date occurs.

         "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

         "Contract" means a Retail Installment Contract or a Lease.

         "Contract Value" means,  with respect to any day (including the Initial
Cutoff Date or any Subsequent  Cutoff Date), the sum of (a) the present value of
the future Scheduled Payments  discounted monthly at an annual rate equal to (i)
in the case of any Contract  transferred on the Closing Date, the Initial Cutoff
Date  APR and  (ii) in the  case of any  Contract  transferred  on a  Subsequent
Transfer Date, the applicable Subsequent Cutoff Date APR, plus (b) the amount of
any past due payments.  There shall be deemed to be no Scheduled Payments due on
a Liquidated Receivable.

         "Control"  with  respect  to  any  Federal  Book  Entry  Security,  the
Indenture Trustee shall have obtained control if:


                                               A-7

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                  (i) the Indenture  Trustee is a participant  in the book entry
         system  maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank that is acting as fiscal
         agent for the  issuer of such  Federal  Book Entry  Security,  and such
         Federal Reserve Bank has indicated by book entry that such Federal Book
         Entry Security has been credited to the Indenture Trustee's  securities
         account in such book entry system; or

                  (ii)  (a)  the  Indenture  Trustee  (1) is  registered  on the
         records of a Securities  Intermediary as the person having a Securities
         Entitlement in respect of such Federal Book Entry Security against such
         Securities Intermediary; or (2) has obtained the agreement, in writing,
         of the Securities  Intermediary  for such Securities  Entitlement  that
         such Securities Intermediary will comply with Entitlement Orders of the
         Indenture Trustee without further consent of any other Person;  and (b)
         the Securities  Intermediary  is a participant in the book entry system
         maintained  by the Federal  Reserve Bank that is acting as fiscal agent
         for the  issuer  of such  Federal  Book  Entry  Security;  and (c) such
         Federal Reserve Bank has indicated by book entry that such Federal Book
         Entry  Security  has been  credited  to the  Securities  Intermediary's
         securities account in such book entry system.

         "Corporate  Trust  Office"  means,  (a) with  respect to the  Indenture
Trustee,  the  principal  office  of  the  Indenture  Trustee  at  which  at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office
at the date of the Indenture is located at 311 West Monroe  Street,  12th Floor,
Chicago,  Illinois 60606, Attention:  Indenture Trust Administration  (facsimile
no.  (312)  461-3525);  or at such other  address as the  Indenture  Trustee may
designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Seller,  or the
principal corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the address
of which the successor  Indenture  Trustee will notify the  Noteholders  and the
Seller),  and (b) with respect to the Trustee,  the  principal  corporate  trust
office of the Trustee  located at 101 Barclay  Street,  Floor 12E, New York, New
York 10286,  Attention:  Corporate Trust  Administration  - Asset Backed Finance
Unit; or at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by
notice to the Certificateholders  and the Depositor,  or the principal corporate
trust  office of any  successor  Trustee  (the  address  of which the  successor
Trustee will notify the Certificateholders and the Depositor).

         "Dealer"  means the dealer (which may include  retail  outlets owned by
Case, or, in whole or in part, by New Holland North America, Inc.) or broker who
originated and assigned the  respective  Receivable to Case Credit or NH Credit,
as applicable, under a Dealer Agreement.

         "Dealer  Agreement"  means the  retail  financing  agreement,  warranty
agreement or other agreement between the applicable Dealer and Case Credit or NH

                                               A-8

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Credit, as applicable, which governs the terms of sales of Receivables from that
Dealer to Case Credit or NH Credit, as applicable.

         "Default"  means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of
time or both would become, an Event of Default.

         "Definitive Notes" is defined in Section 2.10 of the Indenture.

         "Delivery" means, when used with respect to Trust Account Property:

                  (i) with respect to a Certificated Security,  transfer of such
         Certificated  Security  to the  Indenture  Trustee  or its  nominee  or
         custodian by physical  delivery to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee
         or custodian,  endorsed to, or registered in the name of, the Indenture
         Trustee or its nominee or custodian or endorsed in blank; and

                  (ii) with  respect to any such  Trust  Account  Property  that
         constitutes an  Uncertificated  Security  (including any investments in
         money  market  mutual  funds,  but  excluding  any  Federal  Book Entry
         Security),  (A) registration of the Indenture Trustee as the registered
         owner  by the  issuer,  or (B)  satisfaction  of the  requirements  for
         obtaining "control" pursuant to Section 8-106(c)(2) of Article 8 of the
         UCC.

         "Depositor"  means the Seller in its  capacity as  Depositor  under the
Trust Agreement.

         "Determination  Date" means,  with respect to any  Transfer  Date,  the
second Business Day prior to such Transfer Date.

         "Either/or  Lease" means any Lease with a Termination  Value of greater
than 10% of the purchase price of the Financed Equipment subject to such Lease.

         "Eligible Deposit Account" means either:  (a) a segregated account with
an Eligible Institution or any other segregated account, the deposit of funds in
which  satisfies the Rating Agency  Condition or (b) a segregated  trust account
with the corporate trust department of a depository  institution organized under
the laws of the United States of America or any State (or any domestic branch of
a foreign bank),  having  corporate trust powers and acting as trustee for funds
deposited in such account,  so long as any of the securities of such  depository
institution  have a credit  rating from each Rating Agency in one of its generic
rating categories that signifies investment grade.

         "Eligible Institution" means: (a) the corporate trust department of the
Indenture Trustee or the Trustee or (b) a depository institution organized under


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the laws of the United States of America or any State (or any domestic branch of
a foreign bank), which:(i) has either a long-term or short-term senior unsecured
debt rating or certificate of deposit rating  acceptable to the Rating  Agencies
and (ii) whose deposits are insured by the FDIC.

         "Eligible   Investments"   mean   book-entry   securities,   negotiable
instruments  or securities  represented  by  instruments in bearer or registered
form that evidence:

                  (a) direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as
         to timely payment by, the United States of America;

                  (b) demand deposits,  time deposits or certificates of deposit
         of any depository  institution or trust company  incorporated under the
         laws of the  United  States of  America  or any State (or any  domestic
         branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and examination by
         Federal  or  State  banking  or  depository  institution   authorities;
         provided,  however,  that at the time of the  investment or contractual
         commitment to invest therein,  the commercial paper or other short-term
         senior  unsecured debt  obligations  (other than such  obligations  the
         rating  of which is based on the  credit  of a Person  other  than such
         depository  institution or trust  company)  thereof shall have a credit
         rating  from each of the  Rating  Agencies  in the  highest  investment
         category granted thereby;

                  (c) commercial paper having,  at the time of the investment or
         contractual  commitment  to invest  therein,  a rating from each of the
         Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby;

                  (d)  investments  in money  market  funds having a rating from
         each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment  category granted
         thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee or the Trustee
         or  any  of  their  respective  Affiliates  is  investment  manager  or
         advisor);  provided,  that during the Funding  Period no investments in
         money market funds shall be made with funds in any Trust  Account other
         than the Collection Account;

                  (e) bankers' acceptances issued by any  depository institution
         or trust company referred to in clause (b);

                  (f) repurchase  obligations  with respect to any security that
         is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed as to timely payment by,
         the United States of America or any agency or  instrumentality  thereof
         the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the
         United States of America, in either case entered into with a depository
         institution or trust company (acting as principal)  described in clause
         (b); and


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                  (g) any  other  investment  permitted  by  each of the  Rating
         Agencies as set forth in writing  delivered to the  Indenture  Trustee;
         provided,  that  investments  described in clauses (d) and (g) shall be
         made only so long as  making  such  investments  will not  require  the
         Issuer to  register  as an  investment  company  under  the  Investment
         Company Act of 1940, as amended.

         "Entitlement  Order"  has  the  meaning  assigned  thereto  in  Section
8-102(a)(8) of Article 8 of the UCC.

         "ERISA" means the Employee  Retirement  Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.

         "Event of Default" is defined in Section 5.1 of the Indenture.

         "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

         "Executive  Officer" means, with respect to any corporation,  the Chief
Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer,  President,
Executive Vice President,  any Vice President, the Secretary or the Treasurer of
such  corporation;  and with  respect to any  partnership,  any general  partner
thereof.

         "Expected Excess Spread" means,  with respect to each Subsequent Cutoff
Date, an amount  determined by the Servicer to represent  excess cash flows from
the  Receivables  that can  reasonably  be expected to be available to cover the
amounts  described  in  clause  (a)  of the  definition  of  Required  Principal
Supplement Account Balance,  provided that each Rating Agency has confirmed that
use of such amount  determined  by the  Servicer  in  calculating  the  Required
Principal  Supplement Account Balance for such Subsequent Transfer Date will not
result in a withdrawal or downgrade of its rating of any Class of Notes.

         "Expenses" is defined in Section 8.2 of the Trust Agreement.

         "Federal Book Entry  Security"  means an  obligation  (i) issued by the
U.S.  Treasury,  the  Federal  Home Loan  Mortgage  Corporation  or the  Federal
National Mortgage Association,  or any other direct obligation of, or obligation
fully  guaranteed as to timely  payment or principal and interest by, the United
States of  America,  that is a  book-entry  security  held  through  the Federal
Reserve  System  pursuant  to  Federal  book  entry  regulations,  and  (ii) the
perfection  of a security  interest  in which is  governed  pursuant  to federal
regulations by Article 8 of the UCC.

         "FDIC"  means  the  Federal  Deposit   Insurance   Corporation  or  any
successor.

         "Final Scheduled Maturity Date" means the February 2007 Payment Date.

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         "Financed Equipment" means property, including any over-the-road trucks
and trailers, agricultural,  construction, forestry or other equipment, together
with all accessions thereto,  securing an Obligor's  indebtedness under a Retail
Installment Contract, or subject to a Lease.

         "Financial   Asset"  has  the  meaning   assigned  thereto  in  Section
8-102(a)(9) of Revised Article 8.

         "First-Tier Case Assignment" means the document of assignment  attached
to the Purchase Agreement as Exhibit A.

         "First-Tier Case Subsequent Transfer  Assignment" is defined in Section
4.1(b)(i) of the Purchase Agreement.

         "First-Tier NH Assignment" means the document of assignment attached to
the Sale Agreement as Exhibit A.

         "First-Tier  NH Subsequent  Transfer  Assignment" is defined in Section
4.1(b)(i) of the Sale Agreement.

         "Funding  Period"  means the period from and including the Closing Date
and ending on the earliest of: (a) the Determination Date on which the amount on
deposit  in the  Pre-Funding  Account  (after  giving  effect  to any  transfers
therefrom in  connection  with the  transfer of  Subsequent  Receivables  to the
Issuer on or before such Determination Date) is less than $100,000, (b) the date
on which an Event of Default or a Servicer Default occurs, (c) the date on which
an  Insolvency  Event  occurs with respect to the Seller or the Servicer and (d)
the close of business on the September 2000 Payment Date.

         "Grant" means  mortgage,  pledge,  bargain,  sell,  warrant,  alienate,
remise, release,  convey, assign,  transfer,  create and grant a Lien upon and a
security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm
pursuant to the  Indenture,  and other  forms of the verb "to Grant"  shall have
correlative  meanings.  A Grant of the  Collateral or of any other  agreement or
instrument  shall  include  all  rights,  powers  and  options  (but none of the
obligations)  of the Granting  party  thereunder,  including  the  immediate and
continuing right to claim for,  collect,  receive and give receipt for principal
and interest  payments in respect of the Collateral and all other moneys payable
thereunder,  to give and  receive  notices  and  other  communications,  to make
waivers or other  agreements,  to  exercise  all rights  and  options,  to bring
Proceedings  in the name of the Granting  party or otherwise and generally to do
and  receive  anything  that the  Granting  party is or may be entitled to do or
receive thereunder or with respect thereto.


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         "Harris" means Harris Trust and Savings Bank, an Illinois banking
corporation.

         "Holder"  means (a) with respect to a Note,  the Person in whose name a
Note is registered on the Note Register and (b) with respect to a Certificate, a
Certificateholder, as the context may require.

         "Indemnified Parties" is defined in Section 8.2 of the Trust Agreement.

         "Indenture"  means the  Indenture,  dated  March 1, 2000,  between  the
Issuer and the Indenture  Trustee,  as the same may be amended and  supplemented
from time to time.

         "Indenture  Trustee"  means Harris Trust and Savings  Bank, an Illinois
banking  corporation,  not in its  individual  capacity  but solely as Indenture
Trustee  under the  Indenture,  or any  successor  Indenture  Trustee  under the
Indenture.

         "Independent"  means,  when used with respect to any specified  Person,
that the Person:  (a) is in fact  independent  of the Issuer,  any other obligor
upon the Notes,  the Seller and any Affiliate of any of the  foregoing  Persons,
(b) does not  have  any  direct  financial  interest  or any  material  indirect
financial  interest in the  Issuer,  any such other  obligor,  the Seller or any
Affiliate  of any of the  foregoing  Persons and (c) is not  connected  with the
Issuer,  any such  other  obligor,  the  Seller or any  Affiliate  of any of the
foregoing  Persons as an  officer,  employee,  promoter,  underwriter,  trustee,
partner, director or Person performing similar functions.

         "Independent   Certificate"  means  a  certificate  or  opinion  to  be
delivered to the  Indenture  Trustee under the  circumstances  described in, and
otherwise  complying  with, the applicable  requirements  of Section 11.1 of the
Indenture,  made by an  Independent  appraiser or other  expert  appointed by an
Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable
care, and such opinion or  certificate  shall state that the signer has read the
definition of  "Independent" in the Indenture and that the signer is Independent
within the meaning thereof.

         "Initial Certificate Balance" means the amount specified as the Initial
Certificate  Balance  in a  letter  of  instruction  from the  Depositor  to the
Trustee.

         "Initial  Class  B  Percentage"  means  4%,  which  is  the  percentage
equivalent  of (a) the initial  balance of the Class B Notes  divided by (b) the
Pool Balance as of the Initial Cutoff Date plus the Pre-Funded  Amount as of the
Closing Date.

         "Initial Cutoff Date" means February 29, 2000.


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         "Initial  Cutoff  Date APR" means  8.50%,  which is an annual rate that
exceeds the weighted  average APR of the Initial  Receivables  as of the Initial
Cutoff Date.

         "Initial NH  Receivable"  means any  Contract  included in the schedule
delivered by NH Credit to Case Credit on the Closing Date (which schedule may be
in the form of microfiche).

         "Initial  Pool Balance"  means:  (i) the Pool Balance as of the Initial
Cutoff Date, which is $722,183,687.46  plus (ii) the aggregate Contract Value of
all Subsequent  Receivables sold to the Issuer as of their respective Subsequent
Cutoff Dates.

         "Initial  Receivable"  means  any  Contract  included  in the  schedule
delivered by the Servicer to the Trustee on the Closing Date (which schedule may
be in the form of microfiche).

         "Insolvency  Event" means, with respect to a specified Person:  (a) the
filing of a decree or order for  relief by a court  having  jurisdiction  in the
premises in respect of such Person or any substantial part of its property in an
involuntary case under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other  similar  law now or  hereafter  in  effect,  or  appointing  a  receiver,
liquidator,  assignee,  custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for
such  Person  or for any  substantial  part of its  property,  or  ordering  the
winding-up or  liquidation  of such Person's  affairs,  and such decree or order
shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive  days, or (b)
the commencement by such Person of a voluntary case under any applicable Federal
or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect,
or the  consent  by such  Person  to the  entry of an  order  for  relief  in an
involuntary  case  under  any such law,  or the  consent  by such  Person to the
appointment  of  or  taking  possession  by a  receiver,  liquidator,  assignee,
custodian,  trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for any
substantial  part of its  property,  or the making by such Person of any general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by such Person generally
to pay its  debts as such  debts  become  due,  or the  taking of action by such
Person in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

         "Instruments"  has the meaning assigned thereto in Section  9-105(l)(i)
of Article 9 of the UCC.

         "Interest  Rate" means (a) as to the A-1 Notes,  the A-1 Note Rate, (b)
as to the A-2 Notes,  the A-2 Note Rate, (c) as to the A-3 Notes Class,  the A-3
Note Rate, (d) as to the A-4 Notes,  the A-4 Note Rate and (e) as to the Class B
Notes, the Class B Note Rate.


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         "Investment  Earnings"  means,  with respect to any Payment  Date,  the
interest and other investment  earnings (net of losses and investment  expenses)
on amounts on deposit in the Trust  Accounts to be deposited into the Collection
Account on the related  Transfer Date pursuant to Section 5.1(b) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.

         "Investment Property" is defined in Section 9-115(1)(f) of the UCC.

         "Issuer" means CNH Equipment Trust 2000-A until a successor replaces it
and,  thereafter,  means  the  successor  and,  for  purposes  of any  provision
contained in the  Indenture  and required by the TIA,  each other obligor on the
Notes.

         "Issuer  Order" and "Issuer  Request" means a written order or request,
respectively,  signed  in the name of the  Issuer  by any one of its  Authorized
Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

         "Lease"  means  a  lease  of  agricultural,  construction  or  forestry
equipment.

         "Lien"  means a security  interest,  lien,  charge,  pledge,  equity or
encumbrance of any kind,  other than tax liens,  mechanics'  liens and any liens
that attach to the related Receivable by operation of law as a result of any act
or omission by the related Obligor.

         "Liquidated Receivable" means any Receivable liquidated by the Servicer
through the sale or other disposition of the related Financed  Equipment or that
the  Servicer  has,  after  using all  reasonable  efforts to  realize  upon the
Financed Equipment, determined to charge off without realizing upon the Financed
Equipment.

         "Liquidation   Proceeds"   means,   with  respect  to  any   Liquidated
Receivable,  the  moneys  collected  in respect  thereof  from  whatever  source
(including  the  proceeds  of  insurance  policies  with  respect to the related
Financed  Equipment  or Obligor and  payments  made by a Dealer  pursuant to the
related  Dealer  Agreement with respect to such  Receivable  (other than amounts
paid from Dealer reserve  accounts  maintained  with Case  Credit)),  other than
Recoveries, net of the sum of any amounts expended by the Servicer in connection
with such  liquidation  and any  amounts  required  by law to be remitted to the
Obligor on such Liquidated Receivable.

         "Liquidity  Receivables Purchase  Agreement" is defined in the Recitals
of the Purchase Agreement.

         "Maximum Negative Carry Amount" means the product of:(i) the difference
between:(a) the weighted average of the interest rates on the A-1 Notes, the A-2
Notes, the A-3 Notes, the A-4 Notes and the Class B Notes, minus (b) 2.5%,

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multiplied  by  (ii)  the  Note  Percentage  of the  amount  on  deposit  in the
Pre-Funding  Account  multiplied by (iii) the fraction of a year  represented by
the number of days until the expected end of the Funding  Period  (calculated on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months).

         "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or its successor.

         "Negative  Carry  Account"  means  the  account   designated  as  such,
established and maintained  pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

         "Negative Carry Account Initial Deposit" means $9,309,838.30.

         "Negative  Carry  Amount"  means an amount for each  Collection  Period
calculated  by the Servicer as the  difference  (if positive)  between:  (a) the
product  of: (i) the sum of the Class  Interest  Amounts for each Class of Notes
multiplied by (ii) the Pre-Funded Percentage as of the immediately prior Payment
Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) minus (b) the
Pre-Funding Account Investment Earnings.

         "NH Credit" means New Holland Credit Company,  LLC, a Delaware  limited
liability company, and its successors and assigns.

         "NH  Receivable"  means,  collectively,  any  Contract  listed  on  the
Third-Tier NH Assignment and each Third-Tier NH Subsequent Transfer Assignment.

         "Note Balance" means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes from
time to time.

         "Note Depository  Agreement" means the agreement among the Issuer,  the
Indenture  Trustee,  the Administrator and The Depository Trust Company,  as the
initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date.

         "Note  Distribution  Account"  means the  account  designated  as such,
established and maintained  pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

         "Note Owner" means,  with respect to a Book-Entry  Note, the Person who
is the owner of such Book-Entry  Note, as reflected on the books of the Clearing
Agency,  or on the books of a Person  maintaining  an account  with the Clearing
Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect participant,
in each case in accordance with the rules of the Clearing Agency).


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         "Note  Percentage"  means the  percentage  equivalent to a fraction the
numerator of which is the Note Balance and the  denominator  of which is the sum
of the Note Balance and the Certificate Balance.

         "Note Pool  Factor"  means,  as of the close of business on any Payment
Date with respect to any Class of Notes, the Outstanding Amount of that Class of
Notes divided by the original Outstanding Amount of that Class of Notes (carried
out to the seventh decimal  place).  The Note Pool Factor for each Class will be
1.0000000  as of the Closing  Date,  and,  thereafter,  will  decline to reflect
reductions in the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

         "Note  Register"  and "Note  Registrar"  have the  respective  meanings
specified in Section 2.4 of the Indenture.

         "Noteholders"   means  the  Class  A   Noteholders   and  the  Class  B
Noteholders.

         "Noteholders'  Distributable Amount" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the sum of: (a) the Class Interest Amount for each Class of Notes, (b) the
Class Principal  Distributable  Amount for each Class of Class A Notes,  and (c)
the Class B Noteholders' Monthly Principal Distributable Amount.

         "Notes" means the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes.

         "Obligor"  on a Receivable  means the  purchaser  or  co-purchasers  or
lessee or  co-lessees  of the Financed  Equipment  and any other Person who owes
payments under the Receivable (including, with respect to the Termination Value,
the related Dealer).

         "Officers'  Certificate"  means a certificate signed by at least one of
the Chairman of the Board,  the  President,  the Vice Chairman of the Board,  an
Executive Vice President, any Vice President, a Treasurer,  Assistant Treasurer,
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Seller or the Servicer, as appropriate.

         "Opinion  of  Counsel"  means a written  opinion of  counsel  (who may,
except as otherwise  expressly provided in this Agreement,  be an employee of or
counsel to the Seller or the  Servicer),  which  counsel  and  opinion  shall be
acceptable  to the Indenture  Trustee,  the Trustee or the Rating  Agencies,  as
applicable.

         "Originator" means Case Credit Corporation, a Delaware corporation, its
successors and assigns.


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         "Outstanding"  means,  as of  the  date  of  determination,  all  Notes
theretofore authenticated and delivered under the Indenture except:

                  (i) Notes  theretofore  canceled  by  the  Note  Registrar  or
         delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;

                  (ii) Notes or portions  thereof the payment for which money in
         the necessary amount has been theretofore  deposited with the Indenture
         Trustee  or any  Paying  Agent in trust for the  Holders  of such Notes
         (provided,  however,  that if such Notes are to be redeemed,  notice of
         such redemption has been duly given pursuant to the Indenture); and

                  (iii)  Notes in  exchange  for or in lieu of other  Notes that
         have been  authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture unless
         proof  satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any such
         Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser;

provided,  that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite  Outstanding
Amount of the Notes have given any request,  demand,  authorization,  direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any Basic Document,  Notes owned by
the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller or any Affiliate of any
of the foregoing  Persons shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding,
except that, in determining  whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in
relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent
or waiver,  only  Notes that a  Responsible  Officer  of the  Indenture  Trustee
actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Notes so owned that have
been  pledged  in good  faith may be  regarded  as  Outstanding  if the  pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture  Trustee the pledgee's right so
to act with  respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the  Issuer,  any
other  obligor  upon  the  Notes,  the  Seller  or any  Affiliate  of any of the
foregoing Persons.

         "Outstanding Amount" means the aggregate principal amount of all Notes,
or Class of Notes, as applicable, Outstanding at the date of determination.

         "Owned Contracts" is defined in the Recitals of the Purchase Agreement.

         "Pass-Through  Rate" means 7.32% per annum,  computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

         "Paying  Agent"  means (a) with  respect  to the Notes,  the  Indenture
Trustee  or any other  Person  that  meets  the  eligibility  standards  for the
Indenture  Trustee  specified in Section 6.11 of the Indenture and is authorized
by the Issuer to make the  payments  to and  distributions  from the  Collection
Account and the Note Distribution Account,  including payment of principal of or


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interest  on the Notes on  behalf of the  Issuer,  and (b) with  respect  to the
Certificates,  any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section
3.9 of the Trust Agreement, and shall initially be The Bank of New York.

         "Payment  Date" means,  with  respect to each  Collection  Period,  the
fifteenth day of the calendar month following the end of that Collection Period,
or, if such day is not a Business  Day, the next  Business  Day,  commencing  on
April 17, 2000; provided,  however, that interest and principal on the A-1 Notes
will also be paid on April 9, 2001 if any A-1 Notes remain outstanding after the
March 2001 Payment Date.

         "Person" means any individual,  corporation, limited liability company,
estate,  partnership,  joint venture,  association,  joint stock company,  trust
(including any beneficiary thereof),  unincorporated  organization or government
or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

         "Pool Balance"  means,  at any time, the sum of the aggregate  Contract
Values of the  Receivables  as of the  beginning of a Collection  Period,  after
giving effect to all payments  received from Obligors and Purchase Amounts to be
remitted by the Servicer or the Seller,  as the case may be, with respect to the
preceding  Collection  Period and all Realized Losses on Receivables  liquidated
during such preceding Collection Period.

         "Precomputed  Receivable"  means any Receivable under which the portion
of a payment  allocable  to earned  interest  (which may be  referred  to in the
related  Contract as an add-on finance charge) and the portion  allocable to the
Amount Financed are determined  according to the sum of periodic  balances,  the
sum of  monthly  payments  or any  equivalent  method or are  monthly  actuarial
receivables.

         "Predecessor  Note" means,  with respect to any particular  Note, every
previous Note  evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
such  particular  Note;  and,  for the  purpose  of this  definition,  any  Note
authenticated  and  delivered  under  Section 2.5 of the  Indenture in lieu of a
mutilated,  lost,  destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.

         "Pre-Funded  Amount"  means,  with  respect to any date,  the amount on
deposit in the Pre-Funding Account on such date.

         "Pre-Funded Percentage" means, for each Collection Period, the quotient
(expressed as a percentage)  of: (i) the  Pre-Funded  Amount divided by (ii) the
sum of the Pool Balance and the Pre-Funded Amount, after taking into account all
transfers of Subsequent Receivables during such Collection Period.


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         "Pre-Funding Account" means the account designated as such, established
and maintained pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Pre-Funding  Account  Investment  Earnings" means, with respect to any
Payment  Date,  the interest and other  investment  earnings  (net of losses and
investment  expenses)  on amounts on  deposit in the  Pre-Funding  Account to be
deposited into the Collection  Account on the related  Transfer Date pursuant to
Section 5.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Principal Balance" of a Receivable, as of the close of business on the
last day of a Collection Period, means the Amount Financed minus the sum of: (i)
that portion of all Scheduled  Payments due on or prior to such day allocable to
principal  using (x) in the case of a Precomputed  Receivable,  the actuarial or
constant yield method and (y) in the case of a Simple Interest  Receivable,  the
simple interest method, (ii) any refunded portion of insurance premiums included
in the Amount Financed, (iii) any payment of the Purchase Amount with respect to
the  Receivable  allocable to principal  and (iv) any  prepayment in full or any
partial prepayments applied to reduce the Principal Balance of the Receivable.

         "Principal  Supplement  Account" means the account  designated as such,
established and maintained  pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

         "Principal  Supplement  Account  Deposit"  means,  with respect to each
Subsequent  Transfer Date, an amount equal to the Required Principal  Supplement
Account  Balance  applicable to such  Subsequent  Transfer Date minus any amount
then on deposit in the Principal Supplement Account.

         "Proceeding" means any suit in equity,  action at law or other judicial
or administrative proceeding.

         "Prospectus"   means  the  Prospectus  dated  March  6,  2000  and  the
Prospectus Supplement dated March 9, 2000, relating to the Notes.

         "Purchase  Agreement" means the Purchase Agreement dated as of March 1,
2000,  between  the Seller and the  Originator,  as the same may be amended  and
supplemented  from time to time,  which term shall also include,  as the context
requires, the Liquidity Receivables Purchase Agreement.

         "Purchase Amount" means, as of the close of business on the last day of
a Collection  Period,  an amount equal to the Contract  Value of the  applicable
Contract,  as of the first day of the immediately  following  Collection  Period
(or, with respect to any applicable Contract that is a Liquidated Receivable, as
of the day immediately prior to such Contract  becoming a Liquidated  Receivable


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less any  Liquidation  Proceeds  actually  received by the Issuer) plus interest
accrued and unpaid thereon as of such last day at a rate per annum equal to: (a)
in the case of any Contract  transferred on the Closing Date, the Initial Cutoff
Date  APR  and (b) in the  case  of any  Contract  transferred  or a  Subsequent
Transfer Date, the applicable Subsequent Cutoff Date APR.

         "Purchased  Contracts"  is  defined  in the  Recitals  of the  Purchase
Agreement.

         "Purchased  Receivable" means a Receivable purchased as of the close of
business  on the last day of a  Collection  Period by the  Servicer  pursuant to
Section 4.6 of the Sale and  Servicing  Agreement  or by the Seller  pursuant to
Section  3.2 of the Sale and  Servicing  Agreement,  or as of the first day of a
Collection  Period by the  Servicer  pursuant to Section  9.1(a) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.

         "Purchaser" means CNH Receivables Inc., a Delaware corporation, its
successors and assigns.

         "Rating Agency" means each of Moody's and Standard & Poor's.  If either
of such  organizations  or its successor is no longer in  existence,  the Seller
shall designate a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or other
comparable  Person as a substitute  Rating Agency,  notice of which  designation
shall be given to the Indenture Trustee, the Trustee and the Servicer.

         "Rating Agency Condition" means, with respect to any action,  that each
Rating Agency shall have been given 10 days' prior notice  thereof and that each
of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee
and the  Indenture  Trustee in  writing  that such  action  will not result in a
reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating of any Class of the Notes.

         "Realized  Losses"  means  the  excess  of  the  Principal  Balance  of
Liquidated  Receivable plus accrued but unpaid interest thereon over Liquidation
Proceeds.

         "Receivable"   means,   collectively,   any  Contract   listed  on  the
Second-Tier  Case  Assignment  and each  Second-Tier  Case  Subsequent  Transfer
Assignment.

         "Receivable Files" means the documents  specified in Section 3.3 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Record Date" means, with respect to a Payment Date or Redemption Date,
the close of business on the  fourteenth day of the calendar month in which such
Payment Date or Redemption Date occurs,  or, if Definitive Notes are issued, the
close of business on the last day of the calendar  month  preceding the month of
such Payment  Date,  whether or not such day is a Business Day, or if Definitive
Notes were not  outstanding on such date, the date of issuance of the Definitive


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Notes; provided, however, that a special Record Date of April 8, 2001 will apply
for the special Payment Date relating to the A-1 Notes.

         "Recoveries" means, with respect to any Liquidated  Receivable,  monies
collected in respect thereof,  from whatever source (other than from the sale or
other  disposition of the Financed  Equipment),  after such Receivable  became a
Liquidated Receivable.

         "Redemption  Date" means the Payment Date  specified by the Servicer or
the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.1(a) or (b) of the Indenture, as applicable.

         "Redemption  Price"  means  the  unpaid  principal  amount of the Notes
redeemed,  plus accrued and unpaid interest  thereon at the applicable  interest
rate to but excluding the Redemption Date.

         "Registered Holder" means the Person in whose name a Note is registered
on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.

         "Remaining  Pre-Funded  Amount"  has the  meaning  assigned  thereto in
Section 5.7(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Required Negative Carry Account Balance" means, as of the beginning of
each Collection Period, an amount equal to the lesser of: (a) the Negative Carry
Account Initial Deposit minus all previous  withdrawals  from the Negative Carry
Account and (b) the Maximum Negative Carry Amount as of such day.

         "Required Principal  Supplement Account Balance" means, with respect to
each Subsequent  Cutoff Date, the excess,  if any, of (a) an amount equal to the
difference (if positive)  between (x) the Contract Value of the  Receivables and
(y) the aggregate of the  contractual  payoff  amounts for each  Receivable  (as
specified by the  Servicer for each  Receivable  in the  applicable  Schedule of
Receivables), in each case, as of the end of the prior collection period (or the
applicable  Subsequent  Transfer  Cutoff Date for Subsequent  Receivables  being
transferred on that  Subsequent  Transfer  Date),  over (b) the Expected  Excess
Spread.

         "Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any
officer within the Corporate  Trust Office of the Indenture  Trustee,  including
any Vice President,  Assistant Vice President, Secretary or Assistant Secretary,
or any other officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily  performing  functions
similar to those  performed  by any of the above  designated  officers and also,
with respect to a particular  matter,  any other  officer to whom such matter is
referred  because  of such  officer's  knowledge  of and  familiarity  with  the
particular subject.


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         "Retail  Installment  Contract" means an equipment  retail  installment
contract secured by Financed Equipment.

         "Sale  Agreement"  means the Sale Agreement  dated as of March 1, 2000,
between NH Credit and Case  Credit,  as the same may be amended or  supplemented
from time to time.

         "Sale and Servicing  Agreement" means the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
dated as of March 1, 2000, among the Issuer, the Seller and the Servicer.

         "Sale  Proceeds" is defined in Section 9.1(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

         "Schedule of NH Receivables" means, collectively, the listing of the NH
Receivables  attached  to the  First-Tier  NH  Assignment,  the  Second-Tier  NH
Assignment and the  Third-Tier NH Assignment,  and the listing of NH Receivables
attached to each First-Tier NH Subsequent  Transfer  Assignment,  Second-Tier NH
Subsequent Transfer Assignment and Third-Tier NH Subsequent Transfer Assignment.

         "Schedule  of  Receivables"  means,  collectively,  the  listing of the
Receivables  attached to the First-Tier  Case  Assignment and  Second-Tier  Case
Assignment,  and the listings of Receivables  attached to each  First-Tier  Case
Subsequent   Transfer   Assignment  and  Second-Tier  Case  Subsequent  Transfer
Assignment.

         "Scheduled  Payment" on a Receivable  means that portion of the payment
required to be made by the Obligor  during any Collection  Period  sufficient to
amortize  the  Principal  Balance  under  (x)  in  the  case  of  a  Precomputed
Receivable,  the  actuarial  method  or (y) in the  case  of a  Simple  Interest
Receivable,  the simple  interest  method,  in each  case,  over the term of the
Receivable and to provide interest at the APR, provided that Termination  Values
shall also constitute Scheduled Payments.

         "Second-Tier  Case  Assignment"  has the  meaning  assigned  thereto in
Section 2.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Second-Tier  Case  Subsequent  Transfer  Assignment"  has the  meaning
assigned thereto in Section 2.2(b)(i) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Secretary  of  State"  means  the  Secretary  of State of the State of
Delaware.

         "Securities  Account"  has the  meaning  assigned  thereto  in  Section
8-501(a) of Article 8 of the UCC.


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         "Securities Entitlement" has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 8-
102(a)(17) of Article 8 of the UCC.

         "Securities Intermediary" is defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of Article
8 of the UCC.

         "Seller" means CNH Receivables Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its
successors in interest to the extent permitted hereunder.

         "Servicer" means Case Credit,  as the Servicer of the Receivables,  and
each successor to Case Credit (in the same capacity)  pursuant to Section 7.3 or
8.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Servicer  Default" means an event specified in Section 8.1 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.

         "Servicer's Certificate" means an Officers' Certificate of the Servicer
delivered  pursuant  to  Section  4.8  of  the  Sale  and  Servicing  Agreement,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C thereto.

         "Servicing  Fee" means the fee  payable to the  Servicer  for  services
rendered during the respective Collection Period, determined pursuant to Section
4.7 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Simple  Interest  Receivable"  means any  Receivable  under  which the
portion  of a  payment  allocable  to  interest  and the  portion  allocable  to
principal is determined by  allocating a fixed level payment  between  principal
and  interest,  such that such  payment is  allocated  first to the  accrued and
unpaid interest at the Annual  Percentage Rate for such Receivable on the unpaid
principal balance and the remainder of such payment is allocable to principal.

         "Specified  Spread Account Balance" means,  with respect to any Payment
Date,  the  lesser of (a) 2.00% of the  Initial  Pool  Balance  and (b) the Note
Balance.

         "Spread Account" means the account designated as such,  established and
maintained pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

         "Spread Account Initial Deposit" means, initially,  $14,443,673.75 and,
with respect to each  Subsequent  Transfer  Date,  cash or Eligible  Investments
having a value  approximately  equal to 2.00% of the aggregate Contract Value of
the Subsequent  Receivables  conveyed to the Issuer on such Subsequent  Transfer
Date.

         "Standard  &  Poor's"  means  Standard  &  Poor's  Ratings Services, a
division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or its successor.

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         "State"  means any one of the 50 states of the United States of America
or the District of Columbia.

         "Subsequent Case Credit Purchase Price" is defined in Section 2.5(b) of
the Sale Agreement.

         "Subsequent   Cutoff  Date"  means,  with  respect  to  any  Subsequent
Receivables,  the  close  of  business  on the last  day of the  calendar  month
preceding the related Subsequent Transfer Date.

         "Subsequent  Cutoff Date APR"  means,  with  respect to any  Subsequent
Cutoff Date, the Initial Cutoff Date APR or such higher annual rate specified by
the  Servicer,  which  in any  case  exceeds  the  weighted  average  APR of the
Subsequent Receivables being purchased as of such Subsequent Cutoff Date.

         "Subsequent NH  Receivables"  means the NH  Receivables  transferred to
Case Credit pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Sale Agreement, which shall be listed
on Schedule A to the related First-Tier NH Subsequent Transfer Assignment.

         "Subsequent  Receivables"  means  the  Receivables  transferred  to the
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,  which shall
be listed on  Schedule A to the related  Second-Tier  Case  Subsequent  Transfer
Assignment.

         "Subsequent  Transfer  Date"  means (i) with  respect  to a  Subsequent
Receivable,  any  Business  Day during the  Funding  Period on which  Subsequent
Receivables  are  to  be  transferred  to  the  Issuer  and a  Second-Tier  Case
Subsequent  Transfer Assignment is executed and delivered to the Trustee and the
Indenture  Trustee pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Sale and Servicing  Agreement,
or (ii) with respect to a Subsequent NH Receivable,  any Business Day during the
Funding Period on which  Subsequent NH Receivables are to be transferred to Case
Credit and a  First-Tier  NH  Subsequent  Transfer  Assignment  is executed  and
delivered to Case Credit pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Sale Agreement, which in
the case of clauses (i) and (ii) above may be the same day.

         "Successor Servicer" is defined in Section 3.7(e) of the Indenture.

         "Termination  Value" means, the "Termination Value" (if any) payable by
a lessee or Dealer pursuant to the applicable Lease.

         "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act.

         "Total  Distribution  Amount" means,  with respect to any Payment Date,
the  aggregate  amount of  collections  on or with  respect  to the  Receivables
(including collections received after the end of the preceding calendar month on
any Subsequent

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Receivables  added to the Trust after the end of that  preceding  calendar month
and on or before  that  Payment  Date) with  respect to the  related  Collection
Period plus the Negative Carry Amount for such Collection Period. Collections on
or with respect to the Receivables  include all payments made by or on behalf of
the Obligors (including any late fees,  prepayment  charges,  extension fees and
other  administrative  fees or similar  charges  allowed by applicable  law with
respect to the Receivables),  any proceeds from insurance  policies covering the
Financed Equipment or related Obligor, Liquidation Proceeds, the Purchase Amount
of each Receivable that became a Purchased  Receivable in respect of the related
Collection  Period  (to the  extent  deposited  into  the  Collection  Account),
Investment Earnings for such Payment Date, payments made by a Dealer pursuant to
its  obligation  (if any) to pay the  Termination  Value pursuant to the related
Lease  and  pursuant  to the  related  Dealer  Agreement  with  respect  to such
Receivable (other than amounts paid from Dealer reserve accounts maintained with
Case Credit) and the Remaining  Pre-Funded Amount, on the Payment Date specified
in Section 5.7(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement;  provided,  however, that
the Total  Distribution  Amount shall not include:  (i) all payments or proceeds
(including Liquidation Proceeds) of any Receivables the Purchase Amount of which
has been included in the Total Distribution Amount in a prior Collection Period,
(ii) any Recoveries or (iii) amounts released from the Pre- Funding Account.

         "Transfer  Date" means the Business Day  preceding the fifteenth day of
each calendar month.

         "Treasury   Regulations"  means  regulations,   including  proposed  or
temporary  regulations,  promulgated  under the  Code.  References  to  specific
provisions  of  proposed  or  temporary   regulations  shall  include  analogous
provisions  of  final   Treasury   Regulations  or  other   successor   Treasury
Regulations.

         "True  Lease  Equipment"  means the  Financed  Equipment  subject to an
Either/or Lease that is properly  characterized  as a true lease,  rather than a
lease intended as security, within the meaning of Section 1-201(37) of the UCC.

         "Trust" means the Issuer.

         "Trust  Account  Property"  means the Trust  Accounts,  all amounts and
investments  held from time to time in any Trust Account (whether in the form of
deposit  accounts,  physical  property,  book-entry  securities,  uncertificated
securities or otherwise), and all proceeds of the foregoing.

         "Trust  Accounts" has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 5.1(b) of
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         "Trust  Agreement" means the Trust Agreement dated as of March 1, 2000,
between the Seller and the Trustee,  as the same may be amended and supplemented
from time to time.

         "Trust  Certificate"  means a  certificate  evidencing  the  beneficial
interest  of a  Certificateholder  in the  Trust,  substantially  in the form of
Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.

         "Trust Estate" means (a) with respect to the Indenture,  all the money,
instruments,  rights  and other  property  that are  subject or  intended  to be
subject to the Lien and security  interest of the  Indenture  for the benefit of
the Noteholders  (including all property and interests  Granted to the Indenture
Trustee),  including  all  proceeds  thereof,  and (b) with respect to the Trust
Agreement, all right, title and interest of the Trust in and to the property and
rights  assigned to the Trust  pursuant to Article II of the Sale and  Servicing
Agreement,  all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and the
Certificate  Distribution  Account and all other property of the Trust from time
to time,  including any rights of the Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and the Administration Agreement.

         "Trust  Indenture  Act" means the Trust  Indenture  Act of 1939,  as in
force on the date of the Indenture unless otherwise specifically provided.

         "Trust  Officer"  means,  in the  case of the  Indenture  Trustee,  any
officer within the Corporate  Trust Office of the Indenture  Trustee,  including
any Vice President, Assistant Vice President,  Secretary, Assistant Secretary or
any other  officer of the Indenture  Trustee  customarily  performing  functions
similar to those  performed  by any of the above  designated  officers and also,
with respect to a particular  matter,  any other  officer to whom such matter is
referred  because  of such  officer's  knowledge  of and  familiarity  with  the
particular  subject  and,  with  respect  to the  Trustee,  any  officer  in the
Corporate  Trustee   Administration   Department  of  the  Trustee  with  direct
responsibility  for the  administration  of the  Trust  Agreement  and the Basic
Documents on behalf of the Trustee.

         "Trust  Statute"  means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12
Del. Code ss. 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.

         "Trustee"  means The Bank of New York, a New York banking  corporation,
not in its individual  capacity but solely as trustee under the Trust Agreement,
and any successor Trustee thereunder.

         "Uncertificated  Security" has the meaning  assigned thereto in Section
8- 102(a)(18) of Article 8 of the UCC.


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         "UCC"  means,  unless  the  context  otherwise  requires,  the  Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction,  as amended from time
to time.

         "Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement,  dated March
9, 2000,  among  Salomon  Smith Barney Inc.,  as  representative  of the several
underwriters named therein, the Purchaser and Case Credit.


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