Thailand: Board of Trade urges restructuring of economic agencies.

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: Government and Politics - Board of Trade calls for advisory panel to push for restructuring along US model, The Nation reports.

While the country waits for an interim government, businessmen say they want the temporary economic advisers chosen by the coup leaders to restructure government economic agencies to function along the lines of those under the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR).

Pornsilp Patcharintanakul, deputy secretary of the Board of Trade of Thailand, said the Trade Negotiations Department, the Thai Trade Representatives Office, the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food …