أعلن المستشار المالي لرئيس الوزراء العراقي مظهر صالح، أن السوق الموازية العراقية شهدت خلال الأشهر الأخيرة انخفاضا ملحوظا في سعر صرف الدولار مقابل الدينار، ما يعكس تحولات في الطلب والعرض النقدي.
وسجل السعر الرسمي للدولار الأمريكي 1320 دينارا لكل دولار، مقابل نحو 1405 دنانير للدولار وفقا لأحدث الأسعار المتداولة في السوق الموازية بالعراق.
وقال صالح: «نظرا لكون السوق الموازية للصرف تُعدُّ سوقا قائمة على المعلومات، فقد أسهمت السياسة الاقتصادية، بأركانها المالية والنقدية والتجارية، في تحويل هذه السوق من حالة ضجيج معلوماتي ذات انحرافات سعرية مفرطة، إلى سوق مستقرة تتعامل مع معلومات واضحة ومنضبطة، بل وأصبحت في كثير من الأحيان مقادة من السوق الرسمية لا العكس».
وأوضح أنه «يمكن إرجاع اتجاه هبوط سعر الدولار في السوق الموازية نحو السعر الرسمي، إلى التجريم القانوني لاستخدام الدولار في المعاملات المحلية، لاسيما في السوق العقارية التي تعد من أكثر القطاعات طلبا للعملة الأجنبية، ما عزز من دور الدينار في التداول اليومي، والتحول إلى نظام التمويل الخارجي من خلال المصارف العالمية المراسِلة، بدلا من الاعتماد على نافذة البنك المركزي مباشرة، وهو إجراء قلل من مخاطر الامتثال، وأبعد التجار الكبار عن الاعتماد على تمويل السوق الموازية عالية التكلفة والمخاطر».
وأضاف: «دمج صغار المستوردين ضمن شبكة التمويل الرسمية للعملة الأجنبية، أتاح لهم الحصول على الدولار بسعر صرف رسمي مباشر من دون الحاجة إلى وسطاء من شركات العملة، وهو ما يمثل نحو 60% من النشاط الاستيرادي، بفضل التسهيلات الإدارية وتقليص الحلقات البيروقراطية، مع التحول الثقافي في سلوك المسافرين نحو استخدام بطاقات الدفع الإلكتروني بالعملة الأجنبية، ما خفف الضغط على الدولار النقدي، مع الحفاظ على إمكانية الحصول على حصة نقدية محددة من المطارات بشروط ميسرة، فضلا عن تبنّي سياسة سعرية دفاعية تمثلت في انتشار الجمعيات التعاونية لتوزيع السلع الغذائية وسلع البناء وغيرها، بتمويل استيرادي قائم على السعر الرسمي البالغ 1320 دينارا لكل دولار، ما أسهم في استقرار السوق السلعية وتحقيق توازن معقول بين العرض والطلب».
وأشار إلى أن «التأثيرات الاقتصادية المتوقعة يمكن رصدها في انخفاض تكاليف الاستيراد وزيادة القدرة الشرائية، وتعزيز الثقة بالدينار العراقي وتحفيز الاستثمار المحلي، وانتعاش النشاط التجاري الداخلي نتيجة انخفاض تكاليف التشغيل، وانخفاض أسعار المواد الغذائية والدوائية المستوردة، وتقليل التضخم الناتج عن تقلبات سعر الصرف، وتحسين القدرة الشرائية للمواطنين».
ارتفاع الدينار العراقي.. تراجع ملحوظ لسعر الدولار في «الموازية»
17 أغسطس 2025 - 22:51
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The financial advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Muthar Saleh, announced that the Iraqi parallel market has witnessed a noticeable decline in the exchange rate of the dollar against the dinar in recent months, reflecting shifts in monetary demand and supply.
The official price of the US dollar recorded 1320 dinars per dollar, compared to about 1405 dinars per dollar according to the latest prices traded in the parallel market in Iraq.
Saleh stated: "Since the parallel exchange market is considered an information-based market, economic policy, with its financial, monetary, and commercial pillars, has contributed to transforming this market from a state of informational noise with excessive price distortions into a stable market that deals with clear and disciplined information. In fact, it has often been led by the official market rather than the other way around."
He explained that "the trend of the dollar's price decline in the parallel market towards the official price can be attributed to the legal prohibition of using the dollar in local transactions, especially in the real estate market, which is one of the sectors most in demand for foreign currency. This has strengthened the role of the dinar in daily transactions and shifted to a system of external financing through correspondent global banks, instead of relying directly on the Central Bank's window, a measure that reduced compliance risks and distanced major traders from relying on high-cost and high-risk parallel market financing."
He added: "Integrating small importers into the official foreign currency financing network has allowed them to obtain dollars at a direct official exchange rate without the need for intermediaries from currency companies, which represents about 60% of import activity, thanks to administrative facilitation and the reduction of bureaucratic layers, along with a cultural shift in travelers' behavior towards using electronic payment cards in foreign currency. This has alleviated the pressure on cash dollars while maintaining the possibility of obtaining a specific cash share from airports under easy conditions, in addition to adopting a defensive pricing policy represented in the spread of cooperative societies for distributing food and construction goods, among others, with import financing based on the official price of 1320 dinars per dollar, which has contributed to stabilizing the commodity market and achieving a reasonable balance between supply and demand."
He pointed out that "the expected economic impacts can be observed in the decrease of import costs, an increase in purchasing power, enhanced confidence in the Iraqi dinar, and stimulation of local investment, along with a revival of internal commercial activity due to lower operating costs, a decrease in the prices of imported food and pharmaceutical materials, a reduction in inflation resulting from exchange rate fluctuations, and an improvement in citizens' purchasing power."
The official price of the US dollar recorded 1320 dinars per dollar, compared to about 1405 dinars per dollar according to the latest prices traded in the parallel market in Iraq.
Saleh stated: "Since the parallel exchange market is considered an information-based market, economic policy, with its financial, monetary, and commercial pillars, has contributed to transforming this market from a state of informational noise with excessive price distortions into a stable market that deals with clear and disciplined information. In fact, it has often been led by the official market rather than the other way around."
He explained that "the trend of the dollar's price decline in the parallel market towards the official price can be attributed to the legal prohibition of using the dollar in local transactions, especially in the real estate market, which is one of the sectors most in demand for foreign currency. This has strengthened the role of the dinar in daily transactions and shifted to a system of external financing through correspondent global banks, instead of relying directly on the Central Bank's window, a measure that reduced compliance risks and distanced major traders from relying on high-cost and high-risk parallel market financing."
He added: "Integrating small importers into the official foreign currency financing network has allowed them to obtain dollars at a direct official exchange rate without the need for intermediaries from currency companies, which represents about 60% of import activity, thanks to administrative facilitation and the reduction of bureaucratic layers, along with a cultural shift in travelers' behavior towards using electronic payment cards in foreign currency. This has alleviated the pressure on cash dollars while maintaining the possibility of obtaining a specific cash share from airports under easy conditions, in addition to adopting a defensive pricing policy represented in the spread of cooperative societies for distributing food and construction goods, among others, with import financing based on the official price of 1320 dinars per dollar, which has contributed to stabilizing the commodity market and achieving a reasonable balance between supply and demand."
He pointed out that "the expected economic impacts can be observed in the decrease of import costs, an increase in purchasing power, enhanced confidence in the Iraqi dinar, and stimulation of local investment, along with a revival of internal commercial activity due to lower operating costs, a decrease in the prices of imported food and pharmaceutical materials, a reduction in inflation resulting from exchange rate fluctuations, and an improvement in citizens' purchasing power."
