The military council did not want to use foreign currency and announced that merchants could use the commodity exchange system for trade. The military council also said that by implementing a trading system of mutual exchange of goods between the two trading partners, they would be exempted from receiving foreign currency and exempted from paying foreign currency for the value of imports.
The military council wants to use that system, but the system will only come into effect if the trading partner accepts it. This is a Stone Age economic system. The military council is going backward. Today’s merchants will not want to use it. That will not be successful.
At present, border trade gates such as Myawati Trade Zone, and Muse 105 miles Since trade has stopped from Chin Shwe Hao’s camps, the military council is short of foreign currency. As a result, people are suffering from a shortage of foreign currency and high prices of goods.