Foreign exchange controls

Foreign exchange controls
Foreign exchange

Exchange rates
Currency band
Exchange rate
Exchange rate regime
Exchange rate flexibility
Dollarization
Fixed exchange rate
Floating exchange rate
Linked exchange rate
Managed float regime

Markets
Foreign exchange market
Futures exchange
Retail forex

Assets
Currency
Currency future
Non-deliverable forward
Forex swap
Currency swap
Foreign exchange option

Historical agreements
Bretton Woods Conference
Smithsonian Agreement
Plaza Accord
Louvre Accord

See also
Bureau de change / currency exchange (office)
Hard currency

Foreign exchange controls are various forms of controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies by residents or on the purchase/sale of local currency by nonresidents.

Common foreign exchange controls include:

  • Banning the use of foreign currency within the country
  • Banning locals from possessing foreign currency
  • Restricting currency exchange to government-approved exchangers
  • Fixed exchange rates
  • Restrictions on the amount of currency that may be imported or exported

Countries with foreign exchange controls are also known as "Article 14 countries," after the provision in the International Monetary Fund agreement allowing exchange controls for transitional economies. Such controls used to be common in most countries, particularly poorer ones, until the 1990s when free trade and globalization started a trend towards economic liberalization. Today, countries which still impose exchange controls are the exception rather than the rule.

Current countries with foreign exchange controls

(list very incomplete)

See also

References

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