Business Environment Study of Thailand Border in Chiang Rai Province under ASEAN Economic Community (in Thai)

Abstract

This paper aims to study business environment in border areas of Chiang Rai province with 3 neighboring countries, which includes Myanmar, Laos and southern China and to study the effects that impacts of various sectors in border area communities, due to the government policy on the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), an assessment the effect from trade and investment strategies, and to propose and adaptation guidelines for the borders and to generate competitiveness in the market of AEC to prepare for an economic hub of trading and investment, tourism transportation and logistics.

 The information was mainly relying on secondary data collected from various research findings articles, and journals relate to the study. Collection of data involves structured interview. The results found that factors regarding impact on border trade business are trade barriers policy of Myanmar and Laos PDR. The trade barriers that impose trade measures to both imports and exports. The differences various rules and regulations of customs clearance, the major trade issues indentified that there are also tax problems collected at a higher rate in shipments across the region. Thus impact on the cost of goods sold from Thailand. The problem of logistics management that required attention are the linkage of trade facilitation services as and the entrepreneurs’ development to accommodate the changing and growth economics