The Foreign Trade Department at the Ministry of Commerce will establish four border trade promotion centres at border provinces adjacent to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, director-general of the department, Wichak Wisetnoi said on Wednesday.
The center will provide knowledge and advice on border trade, and solution to any related problems for Thai vendors running business along the border areas, Mr Wichak said.
It was the policy of Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai to set up the border trade promotion centres to enable Thai businessmen to maximize benefit from the Asean-Free Trade Area agreement (Afta) which took effect on Jan 1.
“The establishment of these centres would help facilitate border trade with neighbouring countries. The ministry targets to increase the border trade value to at least one trillion baht annually within 2012”, the director-general stated.
Source :http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/166650/commerce-to-set-up-border-trade-centres
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