WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/LIC/N/2/THA/1 
29 September 2010 
 (10-4965) 
Committee on Import Licensing Original:   English 
  
 
AGREEMENT ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES 
 
Notification u nder Article 5 
 
 
THAILAND 
 
  The following communication, dated 28 September 2010, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Thailand.  
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 Summary of the Changes 
 
  In accordance with Section 5 of the Export and Import Act B.E. 2522 (1979), the Ministry of 
Commerce has published the ministerial regulations to eliminate the import licensing requirement for 
jute; kenaf; and gunny bags woven of jute and kenaf. 
  Consequently the coverage of current import licensing regime would be the following;   
 
(a) List of products subject to import licensing procedures
 
  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  (6) Fish meal with protein content less than 60%  (7) Unfinished garments, part or compone nts 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 which can be  used to violate copyrights of cassette tape, 
video tape, and compact disc 
 (17) Intaglio printing mach ines and color copier machines 
 (18) Waste and scrap of plastics G/LIC/N/2/THA/1 
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   (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 and metal-coated food containers 
  3. Import Certification for Agricultural Products under Tariff Rate Quota (TRQs)
 
 
 (1) Milk and cream, not concentrated, nor  containing added sugar or other sweetening 
matter (including flavored milk) 
  (i) Unprocessed milk   (ii) Ready-to-drink milk 
 (2) Milk and cream, concentrated or contai ning added sugar or ot her sweetening matter, 
in powder, granules or other solid form, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1.5% 
 (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 d ecaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee 
substitutes containing coffee in any portion 
 (9) Tea, whether or not flavored (green and black tea) 
 (10) Pepper, dried, whethe r 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 
 (17) Palm oil and its fractions, whether or no t refined, but not chemically modified/ Palm 
kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof 
 (18) Coconut oil and its fraction, whether 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 extracts, 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 gam es including Table for games, Slot Machine, 
Horse racing game machines or racecourse m odel or other similar article, Pachinko, 
Roulette, game machines operated by coin s, 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 curr ency), coupons or 
other articles from machine, other than bow ling alley equipment, parts or accessories 
chip, other parts or accessories of game machines  G/LIC/N/2/THA/1 
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   (2) Goods by deceptive practice 
 (3) Copyrights-infringing cassette tapes, a udio, compact disc, video tapes, computer 
programs and books 
 (4) Household refrigerator, combined refri gerator-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 tress 
from the border of Tak and Kanchanaburi provinces 
 (8) Rough diamonds from or originated in or  Sierra Leone in conformance with the UN 
Resolution 
 (9) All type of arms, military vehicles, hard ware and spare parts from or originated in 
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in conformance with the UN Resolution 
 (10) All type of arms, military vehicles, ha rdware and spare parts from or originated in 
Islamic Republic of Iran in conf ormance with the UN Resolution 
 (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 
 (c) Administrative body for submission of application
 
  See above. 
 
(d) Date and name of publication where licensing procedures are published
 
  Export and Import Act B.E. 2522 (1979) and its Ministerial Regulations (as amended in 2008) 
 (e) Indication of whether the licensing procedur e is automatic or non-automatic according to 
definitions contained in Articles 2 and 3  
  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 agricultural products under tariff rate quota (TRQs) are being utilized. 
 
(f) In the case of automatic import licensing procedures, their 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  G/LIC/N/2/THA/1 
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  (g) In the case of non-automatic import licensing procedures, indication of the measure being 
implemented through the 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.  
 
(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 ongoing. However, the legislation leaves the designation of products 
to be licensed to administrative discretion u nder well defined criteria . All import controlled 
measures must be approved by the Cabi net before imposing the regulations. 
 
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