About the AUD/TND rate
The AUD/TND rate is how many TND one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/TND rate history.
The other directions of this rate: the reverse rate, TND → AUD, is on the receiving Tunisian dinar view, and sending Australian dollars to Tunisia is covered on the AUD → TND transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
What Tunisian law does with its own money
Tunisia prohibits its own banknotes from crossing the border, in either direction. Article 15 of decree 77-608, as amended in February 2007, provides that the import and export of Tunisian dinars in notes or coins of the Central Bank of Tunisia are prohibited in all their forms, saving agreements the Central Bank concludes with its counterparts or with a specialised authority in a foreign country.
Domestically the same body of law reaches past the physical notes. Article 21 of the exchange code, enacted by the law of 21 January 1976, requires settlements between residents to take place in Tunisia absent Central Bank authorisation, bars a resident from contracting an obligation to another resident in any currency but the dinar, and states the principle directly: the dinar must be at once the currency of account and the currency of settlement.
Visitors meet the rule on leaving. Under a Central Bank circular of September 1994 a non-resident may reconvert into foreign banknotes the remainder of the dinars acquired since their last entry, and the proof required steps up at a threshold: below 5,000 dinars the exchange receipt alone, at or above it the receipt with the currency import declaration stamped by Customs. Banks must tell travellers about the receipt, including by displaying notices.
The declaration that circular describes is personal and non-transferable, valid for a single journey, and expires with the visitor's legal stay, with an outer limit of three months from the customs stamp to the next departure. The same instrument sets a hard ceiling on physical export of foreign currency, at the equivalent of 30,000 dinars per trip across all means of payment, with anything larger having to go through an authorised intermediary.
Residents leaving carry their own paperwork. Under a 2016 circular a resident taking foreign currency out must hold a bank-issued currency export authorisation in three parts, of which copy C is surrendered to Customs on departure; it must state which entitlement the currency came from, the list beginning with the tourist allocation, and it is personal, non-transferable, valid for one journey and for at most two months.
Sources: Banque Centrale de Tunisie, Réglementation des changes, recueil de textes (April 2022 update) · Banque Centrale de Tunisie, Circulaire aux intermédiaires agréés n°2016-10 of 30 December 2016