The decision by the Monetary Board to suspend the sale of dollars on the open market, taken last 17 June, will be abandoned this Wednesday. Unless an extension of this deadline is given, this news means that companies generating hard currency would be able to sell their dollars on the open market. Exchange houses and traditional intermediaries have opposed this measure, while some people at the Central Bank felt tht it would work to lower the exchange rate. Exporters and other producers of hard currency have fought to re-instate the measure as a way to force the exchange rate to a more equitable scale. Only dollars and euros produced through credit card sales, telephone bills, fuel sales to foreign vessels, service to airplanes and ships are obliged by law to exchange their dollars and Euros through the Central Bank.