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The cost of one United States dollar in Canadian dollars from 1990 The cost of one Euro in Canadian dollars from 1999 Since 76.7% of Canada's exports go to the U.S., and 53.3% of imports into Canada come from the U.S., [ 34 ] Canadians are interested in the value of their currency mainly against the U.S. dollar.
The value of the dollar continued to be set by reference to the British sovereign and the American eagle, at the rate of 4.8666 Canadian dollars equal to £1, and ten Canadian dollars equal to the ten-dollar American eagle, the same rates as set in the 1853 Province of Canada legislation. [54] [56]
Currency quotations use the abbreviations for currencies that are prescribed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in standard ISO 4217.The major currencies and their designation in the foreign exchange market are the US dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), British pound (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), Canadian dollar (CAD), and the Swiss franc (CHF).
The Mexican peso is the 16th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded currency from the Americas (after the United States dollar and Canadian dollar), and the most traded currency from Latin America. [5] As of 2 January 2025, the peso's exchange rate was $21.16 per euro, $20.62 per U.S. dollar, and $14.28 per Canadian dollar.
The Canadian dollar (as a regional reserve currency for banking) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean states' economies and finance systems since the 1950s. [42] The Canadian dollar is also held by many central banks in Central America and South America.
Implementation would involve the three countries giving up their current currency units (the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso) and adopting a new one, created specifically for this purpose (some versions of the theory assume only the United States and Canada would be included).
A currency [a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [1] [2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [3]
Canadian dollar: Saint Pierre and Miquelon (alongside the euro) Chinese renminbi: Zimbabwe (alongside several other currencies and U.S. dollar-denominated bond coins and bond notes of the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) dollar) Colombian peso: Venezuela (mainly in western states, alongside U.S. dollar) Danish krone: