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Few Chinese Sell Yuan On First Day Of New Year After Barrage Of New Capital Controls

• http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden

Cross-border transfers more than 200,000 yuan by individuals will also be subject to the report process. In terms of foreign currencies, the report threshold remains at the equivalent of 10,000 US dollars for both cash transactions and overseas transfers.

Amusingly, as Xinhua reported over the weekend, "the policy stoked worries that the government is trying to impose capital control in a disguised form" to which PBOC economist Ma Jun had the following retort "It is not capital control at all." Translation - it is.

And that's not all, because overnight, China's currency regulators, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) added its own round of capital controls when it said that it wanted to close loopholes exploited for purposes such as money laundering and illegally channeling money into overseas property.


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