Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Big firms targeted in illegal nominee use
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 16/10/2025
» The Department of Business Development (DBD) is adjusting its work procedures for its nominee crackdown, focusing on large businesses and proposing a new committee chaired by the deputy prime minister.
Shedding light on the US solar probe
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 19/10/2024
» US producers of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells and modules submitted petitions on April 24, 2024 to the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and US International Trade Commission (USITC), requesting an anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigation on solar cells and modules imported from four countries in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Just 4 of 26,000 firms found using Thai nominees
Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 30/09/2024
» Only four out of more than 26,000 businesses in Thailand inspected by the Business Development Department were found to be illegally operating through nominees, while 64 others were found to have violated the accounting law.
Firms file complaint over shady logistics
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 14/07/2022
» Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business operators have called on the Trade Competition Commission to investigate alleged practices by large online platforms that force them to use the logistics services of their own providers.
Shippers deny coconut milk rumour
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 16/06/2022
» The Commerce Ministry and food exporters brushed aside reports that Walmart, the giant US retailer, is dropping a Thai coconut milk brand on allegations of forced monkey labour, insisting such practices are a relic of the past.
Thai solar panel factories accused of being China's tax proxies
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 20/09/2021
» An American solar panel manufacturer has called on the US Department of Commerce to scrutinise 14 factories in Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia over allegations that they have been complicit in the prohibited rerouting of exports from China that would otherwise be subject to far higher US taxation.
Philippines scraps plan to tax imported Thai cars
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 17/08/2021
» Thai car exporters' prospects have become brighter after the Philippines scrapped plans to impose tariffs on cars imported from Thailand, and returned 1.2 billion baht worth of safeguard duty to importers.
TDRI: Return to normal in three years
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 21/05/2020
» Thailand is likely to take up to three years to return to normal economic conditions, similar to 2019, following the pandemic, according to the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).
Thai-EU FTA talks to resume this year
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 13/03/2018
» Thai-EU free trade agreement (FTA) talks are expected to resume by the middle of this year, after the bloc late last year agreed to resume political contact "at all levels", more than three years after suspending them to protest the 2014 military coup.