WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/LIC/N/2/THA/3 
2 October 2012 
 (12-5340) 
Committee on Import Licensing Original:   English 
  
 
AGREEMENT ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES 
 
Notification under Article 5 of the Agreement
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THAILAND 
 
  The following notification, dated 1 October 2012, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Thailand.  
1. (a) Title / number / date of the law or re gulation establishing / changing the import 
 licensing procedure: 
 Ministerial Regulation Prohibiting the Im portation of the Bodies of Used Motor 
Vehicles and Frames of Used Motorcycles B.E.2555 (dated 27 June 2012) and its 
amendment B.E.2555 (dated 30 August 2012); 
              Ministerial Regulation Pr ohibiting the Exportation and Importation of Arms and 
Military Hardware with respect to The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya B.E.2555 (dated 16 January 2012). 
 (b) If the notified measure refers to a change in an already notified import 
licensing procedure, please indicate the do cument symbol of the notification to 
which change(s) has(ve) been introduced. (In this case please also indicate in 
Section 3, below, the nature of the changes (i.e. inclusion or exclusion of some goods and a list thereof; contact point fo r information and/or administrative 
body(ies) for submission of applications, etc.)):    
  G/LIC/N/2/THA/2 
2. Information concerning the institution / change of import licensing procedure: 
(a) List of products subject to the licensing procedure  (Exact name of the products 
and/or whenever possible HS code and indi cation of the exact HS Nomenclature 
(i.e. 1996; 2002 or 2007).  Abbreviations s hould be avoided.  In the case of a long 
list of products, please attach the list as an Annex in Microsoft Word or compatible 
software.  Please do not use PDF, or photocopies .) 
 Consequently the coverage of current  import licensing regime would be the 
following: 
  1. Import Licensing 
 
  (1) 16 kinds of drugs, chemic al and pharmaceutical products 
  (2) Clenbuterol compounds and its salts 
  (3) Albuterol or Salbutamol and its salts 
 (4) Caffeine and its salts  (5) Potassium Permanganate G/LIC/N/2/THA/3 
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    (6) Fish meal with protein content less than 60 per cent 
  (7) Unfinished garments, part or co mponents except collars, cuffs, waist, band 
pocket and cuffs for trouser 
  (8) Worked monument or building stone   (9) Used motor vehicles 
 (10) Used motorcycles  (11) Used six-wheeled buses having 30 seats or more 
 (12) Used diesel engines displacement of 331-1,100 cc. 
 (13) Gold  (14) Coin sized and weighted similar to official coins  (15) Antique idols and parts thereof and parts of ancient monuments 
  (16) Machinery and parts thereof whic h can be used to violate copyrights of 
cassette tape, video tape, and compact disc 
  (17) Intaglio printing machin es and colour copier machines 
  (18) Waste and scrap of plastics   (19) Chainsaw and accessories    2. Import under Conditions for Import Administration 
   (1) Fuel oil   (2) Rough diamonds   (3) Logs, wood and all wooden products   (4) Yellow fin tuna and its product   (5) Ceramic food containers a nd metal-coated food containers 
 
  3. Import Certification for Agricultural Products under Tariff Rate Quota  
   ( T R Q s )  
   (1) Milk and cream, not concentrated , nor containing a dded sugar or other 
sweetening matter (including flavoured milk) 
   (a) Unprocessed milk    (b) Ready-to-drink milk   (2) Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening 
matter, in powder, granules or other solid form, of a fat content, by weight, 
not exceeding 1.5 per cent 
  (3) Potato, fresh or chilled (seed and others)   (4) Onion, fresh, chilled, dried, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not 
further prepared, mixed 
  (5) Garlic, fresh or chilled, whether or not in powder   (6) Coconut, fresh or dried whether or  not chilled or pilled including desiccated 
  (7) Dried longan 
  (8) Coffee whether or not roasted or  decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; 
coffee substitutes containing coffee in any portion 
  (9) Tea, whether or not flavoured (green and black tea)   (10) Pepper, dried, whet her or not crushed or ground 
  (11) Maize (corn) 
  (12) Rice    (13) Soya beans   (14) Copra    (15) Onion seeds   (16) Soya-
bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically 
modified  G/LIC/N/2/THA/3 
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  (17) Palm oil and its frac tions, whether or not refined, but not chemically 
modified/ Palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof 
  (18) Coconut oil and its fraction, whet her or not refined, but not chemically 
modified 
  (19) Cane or beet sugar and chem ically pure sucrose, in solid form 
  (20) Instant coffee and other extract, essences and concentrated, of coffee and 
preparations with a basis of these extr acts, essences or concentrated or with 
a basis of coffee 
  (21) Soya bean cake   (22) Tobacco   (23) Raw silk  
  4. Import Prohibition 
 
  (1) Electrical and mechanical operating games including Table for games, Slot 
Machine, Horse racing game machines or racecourse model or other similar article, Pachinko, Roulette, game machines operated by coins, banknote 
(paper currency), discs, cards or other similar articles, or other methods that 
requirement of machines are met, with or without skill of players will win coins, banknote (paper currency), coup ons or other articles from machine, 
other than bowling alley equipment, parts or accessories chip, other parts oraccessories of game machines 
  (2) Goods by deceptive practice 
  (3) Copyrights-infringing cassette tapes, audio, compact disc, video tapes, 
computer programs and books 
  (4) Household refrigerator, combined refrigerator-freezer utilizing CFC in the 
production process 
  (5) Used engines, parts and accessories of motorcycles of a cylinder capacity 
not exceeding 50 cc and wheels with diameters not over 10 inches 
  (6) Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber and its waste and scrap   (7) Logs and sawn wood which are made of teak trees, rubber trees or forbidden 
trees from the border of Tak and Kanchanaburi provinces 
  (8) All type of arms, military vehi cles, hardware and spare parts from or 
originated in Democratic People's Re public of Korea in conformance with 
the UN Resolution 
  (9) All type of arms, military vehi cles, hardware and spare parts from or 
originated in Islamic Republic of Iran in conformance with the UN 
Resolution 
  (10) Rough diamonds from or originated  in Republic of Cote d'Ivoire in 
conformance with the UN Resolution 
  (
11) Bodies of used motor vehicles in cluding cabs and chassis thereof, and 
frames of used motorcycles excluding those of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cc and forks and wheels with diameters not over 10 inches 
  (1
2) All type of arms, military vehicles,  hardware and spare parts from or 
originated in The Great Socialist Pe ople's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 
conformance with the UN Resolution 
    G/LIC/N/2/THA/3 
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  (b) Contact point for information on eligibility  
  Bureau of Trade Measures, Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce 
  44/100 Nonthaburi 1 Road, Amphoe Muang, Nonthaburi 11000,    Tel. +66-(0)2-547-4733 fax. +66-(0)2-547-4736 email: cdtdft@moc.go.th   Contact officer:  [ ]  
(c) Administrative body(ies) fo r submission of applications  (If more than one please 
include the same information for each body.)  
  See above.  
(d) Date and name of publication where licensing procedures are published  
  Date of publication:  
              Previously notified were  Export and Import Act B.E.  2522 (9 May 1979) and its 
subsequent Ministerial Regula tions and their amendments.  
              The recent Ministerial Regulat ions as notified in 1(a) above are of 27 June 2012, 
30 August 2012, and 16 January 2012 
            Source of publication: website www.dft.go.th  
(e) Indication of whether the licensing procedure is  
 [X] automatic.   If so please indicate: (f) the administrative purpose:   
  The purposes of utilizing automatic import licensing procedures are to: 
   - Protect public moral, human, animal or plant life or public health   - Protect national treasures of artistic, historic or archaeological value   - Conserve environment and exhaustible natural resources 
  - Protect intellectual properties 
 
[X] non-automatic.   If so please indicate:  (g) the measure being 
implemented through the import licensing procedure:  In general, the 
application will be rejected for failure to meet the criteria under import controlled 
regulations. However, they will be given the right to appeal to the authorities 
concerned for reconsideration. 
 Currently, under the Export and Import Act B.E. 2522 (1979), 3 types of import licensing procedures which are automatic import licensing, non- automatic import licensing and import certification on agricu ltural products under tariff rate quota 
(TRQs) are being utilized. 
(h) Expected duration of the licensing procedure if this can be estimated with some 
probability, and if not, reason why this information cannot be provided 
Licensing procedure is on-going. However, the legislation leaves the designation of 
products to be licensed to administrative discretion under well-defined criteria. All 
import controlled measures must be approve d by the Cabinet before imposing the 
regulations  G/LIC/N/2/THA/3 
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  3. Other relevant data or information:  (i.e. complete title and data concerning the 
legislation, inclusion or exclusion of certain products from the impor t licensing regime and list 
thereof; changes related to the administrative body(ies) for submission of applications, etc.) 
 
 In accordance with Section 5 of the Export and Import Act B.E. 2522 (1979), the Ministry of 
Commerce has published the Ministerial Regula tions on 27 June 2012 and on 30 August 2012 to 
introduce the import prohibition of bodies of used  motor vehicles including cabs and chassis thereof, 
and frames of used motorcycles excluding those of  a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cc and forks 
and wheels with diameters not over 10 inches, a nd has published the Ministerial Regulation on 
16 January 2012 to introduce the import prohibition of all type of arms, military vehicles, hardware 
and spare parts from or originated in The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 
conformance with the UN Resolution. 
 
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 1 "Members which institute licensing procedures or changes in these procedures shall notify the 
Committee of such within 60 days of publication [...]" (Art. 5.1).