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Doing Business in Thailand

Alien Business Law
Business Activities

Category A Business Activities
Category B Business Activities
Category C Business Activities

Category A – Closed to Aliens

Agricultural Businesses
  Rice farming
  Salt farming, including manufacture but excluding rock salt mining

Commercial Businesses
  Internal trade in local agricultural products
  Land trade

Service Businesses
  Accounting
  Law
  Architecture
  Advertising

Brokerage or agency
  Auctioneering
  Barber, hairdressing, and beautification

Other Businesses
  Building construction

Category B - Closed to Aliens unless promoted by the Board of Investment

Agricultural Businesses
  Cultivation
  Orchard farming
  Animal husbandry, including silk worm raising
  Timbering
  Fishing

Industrial and Handicraft Businesses 
  Rice mill
  Manufacture of flour from rice field crops
  Manufacture of sugar
  Manufacture of beverages
  Alcoholic blending
  Manufacture of ice
  Manufacture of drugs
  Cold storage
  Wood processing
  Manufacture of products from gold, silver, niello, or bronze
  Manufacture or casting of images of Buddha and manufacture of alms bowls
  Manufacture of wood carvings
  Manufacture of lacquer ware
  Manufacture of all types of matches
  Manufacture of lime, cement, and cement products
  Stone blasting or crushing
  Manufacture of plywood, wood veneer, chip-board or hard-board
  Manufacture of garments or shoes except for export
  Printing press
  Newspaper publication
  Silk combing, silk weaving or printing of pattern or silk material
  Manufacture of products from silk, silk treads or silk cocoon.

Commercial Businesses
  Retailing of all products except those specified in Category C (Below)
  Sale of mining products except those specified in Category C 
  Sale of all types of food and beverage except those specified in Category C
  Sale of antiques, period antiques or works of art.

Service Businesses
  Tour agencies
  Hotel business except hotel management
  Business under the law on service-providing establishments
  Photography, photographic developing and printing
  Laundry
  Tailoring and dressmaking

Other Businesses
  Internal transport by land, water, or air.

Category C – Open to Aliens

Business in Commerce
  Wholesales of all types of products within the country except those specified in Category A (Above)
  Export of all types of products
  Retailing machinery, equipment and tools
  Sale of food and beverage for the promotion of tourism

Business in Industry and Handicrafts
  Manufacture of animal feeds
  Extraction of vegetable oil
  Manufacture of embroidering and knitting products including weaving, dyeing, and pattern printing
  Manufacture of glass containers including light bulbs
  Manufacture of crockery
  Manufacture of writing and printing paper
  Rock salt mining
  Mining

Business in Services
  Except for those specified in Category A and Category B

Other
  Other constructions except those specified in Category A

 


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