[A Loan in the Form of a Sale]

Question: Two men agree that one of them will pay a specified sum of money to the other, and the latter will import from abroad a specified consignment of goods, of which the payer will receive, say, one half. The payer then stipulates upon the importer that, upon the goods’ arrival, he (the payer) will sell his entire share of what was imported to the importer at a profit of ten percent, for example. Is this permissible?