Mais países abandonam o dólar: China e Suíça fazem acordo para troca direta de suas moedas.
Switzerland’s National Bank and the People’s Bank of China have reached an agreement to swap their respective currencies, meaning the trade between Swiss banking customers and China will no longer have to be mediated by banking systems depending on the United States Federal Reserve or European Central Bank (ECB). This agreement is the latest of nearly two dozen China has made with central banks, including the ECB, the Bank of England and the Australian Central Bank, which allow for trade between the nations to use China’s currency, the yuan.
Before the agreements, someone with large amounts of national currency, like the Swiss franc, would have to route transactions through a bank in a third-party nation or the People’s Bank of China itself to obtain yuan or to exchange yuan for their national currency. Now, Swiss companies can exchange up to 150 billion yuan (21 billion Swiss francs) through the Swiss banking system. These agreements by China are part of a strategy to limit U.S world influence and help present an alternative to the U.S.-led Bretton Woods system. Before 2009, when China began this push, most currency transactions went through the Federal Reserve, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) providing loans to support national currencies. Among other things this meant the U.S. could isolate nations by denying them access to the Federal Reserve System to clear international transactions, a tactic recently used against Iran.
