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Argentine currency controls (2011–2015)

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567: 983: 58: 161: 69:, required that individuals and businesses who sought to buy dollars request permission, which may depend of the financial status of the buyer. However, the implementation of the rules was arbitrary. In February, restrictions were applied to all international payments in dollars, such as imports. This also affected the ability of foreign investors to return their earnings to their own countries. 83:, the country had very low foreign reserves and a high inflation. After the 2015 elections, President Mauricio Macri hoped that by lifting the extreme currency controls it would help spark a wave of foreign investment that would help battle the dwindling foreign reserves and a double-digit inflation. 75:
In June 2012, AFIP forbade the purchase of dollars, except for a limited number of activities. As the country had a high inflation at that point, people used to buy dollars to keep the value of their money. The use of dollars for tourism received more limits a couple of months later: people would
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sought sources of financing, such as international banks and grain exporters. It was estimated that the grain exporters had billions of dollars in stockpiled grain harvests, waiting for the changes to sell them.
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The use of credit cards abroad was also restricted. As of May 2012, people could only buy dollars for 25% to 40% of their wages.
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by companies, and limited the purchase of dollars by individuals to a maximum of US $ 10,000 per month. After the
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for 'exchange clamp'). The controls were lifted in 2015, at the beginning of the presidency of
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only receive the local money of the country that they visited, and only 7 days before the trip.
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By 2014, following Cristina Fernández de Kirchner use of central bank reserves to prop up the
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The first restrictions were imposed on October 31, 2011. The Tax and Customs Authority,
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that he would cancel the restrictions immediately, as part of the reforms to promote
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Official USD (blue) and black market USD (orange) from January 2011 to January 2016.
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in 2011, at the beginning of the second presidency of
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Argentine currency controls (2011–15)
foreign exchange controls
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Spanish
Mauricio Macri

AFIP
peso
Mauricio Macri
Kirchners
2015 presidential campaign
economic growth
Minister of Treasury and Public Finance
Alfonso Prat-Gay
devaluation
2019 primary election
Mauricio Macri
restricted the purchase of foreign currency
October general election
continued falling
Money portal
"El dólar blue alcanzó un nuevo récord: cotizó a $ 16,11, a seis días de las elecciones"



"Cepo cambiario: cronología de estos cuatro años de restricciones"



"Argentina lifts currency controls, floats peso in bid to boost economy"

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