LIST
ONE
The businesses not
permitted for aliens to operate due to special reasons:
(1) |
Newspaper
business, radio broadcasting or television station business |
(2) |
Rice farming,
farming or gardening. |
(3) |
Animal
farming |
(4) |
Forestry
and wood fabrication from natural forest |
(5) |
Fishery
for marine animals in Thai waters and within Thailand specific economic
zones. |
(6) |
Extraction
of Thai herbs. |
(7) |
Trading
and auctioning Thai antiques or national historical objects. |
(8) |
Making
or casting Buddha images and monk alms bowls. |
(9) |
Land trading |
LIST
TWO
The
businesses related to the national safety or security or affecting arts
and culture, tradition, folk handicraft or natural resource and environment.
Group
1: The businesses related to the national safety or security |
(1) |
Production,
selling, repairing and maintenance of: |
|
(a) |
firearms,
ammunition, gun powder, explosives. |
(b) |
Accessories
of firearms, ammunition, and explosive |
(c) |
Armaments,
ships, air-crafts or military vehicles. |
(d) |
Equipment
or components, all categories of war materials. |
|
(2) |
Domestic
land, waterway or air transportation, including domestic airline business. |
|
|
Group
2 : The businesses affecting arts and culture, traditional and folk
handicraft: |
(1) |
Trading
antiques or art objects being Thai arts and handicraft. |
(2) |
Production
of carved wood. |
(3) |
Silkworm
farming, production of Thai silk yarn, weaving Thai silk or Thai silk
pattern printing. |
(4) |
Production
of Thai musical instruments. |
(5) |
Production
of goldware, silverware, nielloware, bronzeware or lacquerware. |
(6) |
Production
of crockery of Thai arts and culture. |
|
|
Group
3: The businesses affecting natural resources or environment: |
(1) |
Manufacturing
sugar from sugarcane; |
(2) |
Salt farming,
including underground salt; |
(3) |
Rock salt
mining; |
(4) |
Mining,
including rock blasting or crushing; |
(5) |
Wood fabrication
for furniture and utensil productio |
LIST
THREE
| The
business which Thai national are not yet ready to complete with foreigners: |
(1) |
Rice
milling and flour production from rice and farm produce |
(2) |
Fishery,
specifically marine animal culture. |
(3) |
Forestry
from forestation. |
(4) |
Production
of plywood, veneer board, chipboard or hardboard. |
(5) |
Production
of lime. |
(6) |
Accounting
service business. |
(7) |
Legal
service business. |
(8) |
Architecture
service business. |
(9) |
Engineering
service business. |
(10) |
Construction,
except for: |
|
(a) |
Construction
rendering basic services to the public in public utilities
or transport requiring special tools, machinery, technology
or construction expertise having the foreigners' minimum capital
of 500 million Baht or more. |
(b) |
Other
categories of construction as prescribed by the ministerial
regulations. |
|
(11) |
Broker
or agent business, except: |
|
(a) |
Being
broken or agent for underwriting securities or services connected
with future trading of commodities of financing instruments
or securities. |
(b) |
Being
broker or agent for trading or procuring goods or services
necessary for production or rendering services amongst affiliated
enterprises. |
(c) |
Being
broker or agent for trading, purchasing or distributing or
seeking both domestic and foreign markets for selling domestically
manufactured or imported goods in the manner of international
business operations having the foreigners' minimum capital
100 million Baht or more. |
(d) |
Being
broker or agent of other category as prescribed by the ministerial
regulations. |
|
(12) |
Auction,
except: |
|
(a) |
Auction
in the manner of international bidding not being the auction
of antiques, historical artifacts or art objects which are
Thai works of arts, handicraft or antiques or having the historical
value. |
(b) |
Other
categories of auction as prescribed by the ministerial regulations. |
|
(13) |
Internal
trade connected with native products or produce not yet prohibited
by law. |
(14) |
Retailing
all categories of goods having the total minimum capital less than
100 million Baht or having the minimum capital of each shop
less than 20 million Baht. |
(15) |
Wholesaling
all categories of goods having minimum capital of each shop less than
million Bath. |
(16) |
Advertising
business. |
(17) |
Hotel
business, except for hotel management service |
(18) |
Guided
tour. |
(19) |
Selling
food or beverages. |
(20) |
Plan cultivation
and propagation business. |
(21) |
Other
categories of service business except that prescribed in the ministerial
regulations |
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