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<br><br><br>Most travelers only notice foreign transaction fees when they check the statement after coming home. By then the damage is done. A short primer avoids the surprise.<br><br><br><br>A foreign transaction fee is a percentage charged by your card issuer whenever a purchase clears in a currency other than your home currency. The typical range is one to three percent per transaction. Some issuers charge it even on dollar-denominated purchases if the merchant is located abroad.<br><br><br><br>The fee stacks on top of the currency conversion, which is a separate cost. Networks like Visa and Mastercard use a wholesale rate that is usually within half a percent of the mid-market rate. That is not where the pain lives. The pain lives in the issuer's added fee.<br><br><br><br>For anyone traveling more than twice a year, a no-foreign-fee credit card is the single easiest win. 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That option is called dynamic currency conversion and it hides an unfavorable exchange rate. Pay in the local currency and let your card handle conversion at the network rate.<br><br>
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