(1) Its main components are the Macau pataca , the Panama balboa, the Burmese kiat, the Bhutan ngultrum and the Laotian kip.

(2) Article 109 No foreign exchange control policies shall be applied in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The Macao Pataca shall be freely convertible.

(3) The SAR has increased the duty on cigarettes from 0.05 pataca (0.006 U. S. dollar) to 0.2 pataca (0.025 dollar) per stick, which is an increment of 300 percent.

(4) Now we have inflation, the outcast dollar which is never more rights, the pataca weakened, all with visible effects in the quality of life of citizens.

(5) Unless otherwise stated, all values should be shown to the nearest thousand in Pataca (MOP) or MOP equivalent in the case of foreign currency items. Foreign exchange conversions. should .