The commercial yuan rate with the time it was taken, a two-way converter and the amounts an importer or a supplier quote actually uses.
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China has been Brazil largest trading partner since 2009, and the traffic runs both ways: soy, iron ore and oil going out, electronics, machinery, chemicals, auto parts and solar panels coming in. Whoever converts yuan here is rarely a tourist. It is far more often someone reading a factory quote from a supplier on 1688 or Alibaba, pricing a container, or working out what a sample order really costs by the time it lands.
There is a trap worth naming for exactly that person. Most cross-border quotes from Chinese suppliers are given in dollars, and most marketplace orders are charged in dollars or converted into reais by the platform. When that is the case the yuan rate is not the rate you are paying: your exposure is to the dollar against the real, and the yuan only tells you what the goods cost at the factory gate. Use the rate here when the invoice itself is in renminbi — steadily more common since Brazil and China set up direct settlement between the two currencies in 2023, cutting the dollar out of the middle.
The yuan itself does not move like the others here. It is a managed currency: the central bank publishes a reference rate each morning and the market may trade only within a band around it, so the yuan drifts where a free-floating currency jumps. It also has two prices — the onshore rate in mainland China and the offshore rate traded in Hong Kong, which can diverge when pressure builds. The value at the top is the commercial reference, refreshed every half hour, with the time of the quote beside it — not what you pay. A transfer carries your bank spread and the IOF, and on arrival the import tax and state ICMS apply to the goods, under rules that changed in 2024.
From the market feed for the yuan against the real, stored here by a job that runs every 30 minutes; the exact date and time of the quote sit under the value. Press "Refresh rate" and the page fetches the current one live from your browser. Outside trading hours the number stays at the last close, which is normal.
Because this is the commercial rate, a wholesale reference. A payment to a supplier is closed at that rate plus the bank spread, with the IOF on top, and remittance services differ a lot between themselves. Ask for the closed all-in rate and type it into the rate field above to see the true cost in reais.
Probably not. Most of those platforms price in dollars or convert to reais themselves, so what hit your card was a dollar conversion plus the operator spread and IOF. Use this page when the price is genuinely in yuan — a supplier quote, a domestic Chinese listing — and the dollar page when the charge is in dollars.
Renminbi is the name of the currency, yuan the unit you count in — roughly the relationship between sterling and the pound. Both are correct. The international code is CNY, and you may also see CNH: the same currency traded offshore in Hong Kong, at a slightly different price.
Because it is not free-floating. The central bank sets a daily reference and allows trading only inside a band around it. The result is a currency that moves in small steps for long stretches and then adjusts, as it did in August 2015.
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