BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 14
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
About $711 million worth of currency was sold to banks in Iran at the NIMA exchange rate (the exchange rate created for exporters to sell a portion of their export earnings to banks) during last Iranian week (November 7 through November 12), Trend reports citing Central Bank of Iran.
According to the report, the average price of each dollar amounted to about 249,000 rials based on the volume of sold currency.
As reported, about $546 million worth of currency was sold to Iranian banks by exporters at the NIMA rate in the preceding Iranian week (Oct. 29 through Nov. 4).
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has created a NIMA system in 2018 for exporters to sell a portion of their export earnings to banks to eliminate the shortage of foreign currency in the country for various reasons (sanctions, economic situation, etc.). In this system, exporters who earned more than 1 million euros from export a year must sell a portion of their export earnings to banks at the NIMA rate. Later, banks used to sell foreign currency to importers for the import of several products at this rate.
The Central Bank of Iran has not imposed rules on exporters that earned from export less than 1 million euros a year.
Those with total exports of one to three million euros per year are required to offer 50 percent of their received foreign exchange from the government through the NIMA system.
The exporters with annual exports of three to 10 million euros are obliged to offer 70 percent.
Those with exports of above 10 million euros per year must offer 90 percent of the received foreign exchange at NIMA.