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Sep 2, 2012, 6:54 am

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percysmith

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Originally Posted by percysmith

I'm not sure about the US
But from the limited fee tables I can see
https://secure.cmax.americanexpress....s/BlueAECB.pdf
https://secure.cmax.americanexpress...._Agreement.pdf
I don't see Amex imposing foreign transaction fee for US cards
Only individual banks apply it as a bank-imposed fee

Edit 2 Sep: Amex does assess 2.7% fee on it's own cards for foreign transactions (whether currency conversion occurred or not) save for corporate and personal Platinum and Centurion.

Although I disagree with the terminology I admit to being mistaken about Amex's fees on its own cards. Yes OP may get hit by foreign transaction fees on BA purchase even if denominated on USD - apologies.

In fact, it has happened to other FTers before: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-abroad.html#7

Last edited by percysmith; Sep 2, 2012 at 7:07 am

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