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Bangkok Post, Thailand, Leading the Way column.
Nov. 2--FREE TRADE AREAS AND THE AUTO SECTOR: Free Trade Area (FTA) agreements will lower customs duties on imported products and reduce non-tariff barriers such as licensing, quotas and prohibitive customs procedures. These measures will usher in a new environment for the automotive industry in Asia in the next decade.
The auto industry is protected by high tariff and non-tariff barriers. In Thailand, imported cars are subject to 80 percent customs duty and car parts are taxed up to 42 percent. In a number of countries (including Thailand) excise duty is charged on complete vehicles based on the Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) price plus the customs duty, multiplying its effect.
Many countries exclude their auto sectors in ...
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- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News August 16, 2005 700+ words
...s merchandise exports to Thailand have grown 40 per cent since...Total two way trade with Thailand now is over A$8 billion." Mr Vaile said wine exports to Thailand from Australia had grown 43...exercise of negotiating bilateral FTAs is absolutely imperative to...
- THAILAND'S LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY TO RULE ON FTAs.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 17, 2006 700+ words
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- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News March 16, 2006 700+ words
...agrees. Opposition to FTAs has been steadily building in Thailand through a broad...vowing to bring all FTAs before Thailand's Constitutional...said. While the FTAs have certainly helped...volume of trade, Thailand has ended up in deficit...
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- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence February 20, 2006 700+ words
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- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 2, 2007 700+ words
...with regard to important FTAs with Asean, Thailand, Japan and European...while negotiating the FTAs where India has so much...increasingly looking at FTAs to ensure market access...Negotiations on an FTA with Thailand are moving slow after...
- TOO MANY FTAs MAY INCREASE COSTS FOR BUSINESSES: CONFERENCE.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News August 13, 2004 700+ words
...with the United States or Thailand. Australia has struck FTAs with Singapore, Thailand and the US in the past two...the long term benefits of FTAs, Mr Gallagher said the...He said both the US and Thailand trade deals contained long...
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- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News July 12, 2006 700+ words
...Asean member to sign FTAs and later Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia...Singapore has signed FTAs with Japan, US, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. Ariff said the reason some countries sign the FTAs was because of Asean...
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- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence Osborne, Kristen May 4, 2005 700+ words
...such as tariffs. Australia has recently negotiated FTAs with the US, Singapore and Thailand. Depending on the conditions, FTAs can favour some industries more than others. Under the Thailand-Australia FTA, the local dairy and beef industries...