With the “MEP dollar“, any interested party could acquire United States currency without limits and in a 100% legal still final cost of $314 (35 pesos less).
many people who they haven’t traveled yet abroad and that they will do so soon, in the summer, they are also using this mechanism. they do it for pre-purchase the dollars they will spend abroad, and so freeze and secure the exchange rate Current MEP, which remains relatively “cheap” against the “Qatar” price.
The Qatar dollar can also be avoided if the traveler takes into account pesos and dollars, both linked to debit cards. In this way you can choose which accounts will debit the purchases.
If the debit is programmed in pesosthe amount of each consumption is will pesify to the official exchange rate plus the 100% surcharge.
To avoid this, the debit must be previously configured in dollars. In this way, the bank will simply deduct from the account the amount in dollars of the operation, without country tax or perceptions. It will use the foreign currency deposited there, which may have been bought before at a price lower than the “Qatar” price.
Source: Ambito
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