Card Hub is a website set up to help consumers choose credit cards based on a variety of factors, including the foreign transaction fee.

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For the Chase Freedom card, the foreign transaction fee is 3%.

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Visa and Mastercard charge a 1 percent foreign transaction fee, American Express charges 2 percent, and the companies issuing the cards can add fees of their own.

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But some issuers are geared toward the world traveler -- not only do they forego the foreign-transaction fee, but they foot the credit card company's as well.

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The trick is finding a card without foreign transaction fees, which typically charges a fee of two to three percent of each transaction.

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