Foreign Currency Restrictions

With the notification 12/2022 from 3 April 2022, the Central Bank of Myanmar announced that all foreign earnings have to be converted into Myanmar Kyat within one working day at a fixed rate of 1.850 MMK per US Dollar.

After complaints from several business chambers and the outcry of the business community in general, the CBM issued another notification exempting:

Foreign direct investment operating under a permission of the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC);
Investments operating in a special economic zone;
Diplomats and their family members;
UN employees;
Foreign employees from foreign development agencies.

Local transactions in foreign currency are currently not possible, and transactions to foreign countries require the pre-approval of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and mostly also from the responsible Ministry.

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