Thailand shows progress on AEC preparation
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Thailand has shown progress over the preparation towards the Asean Economic Community, accomplishing 79.56 per cent of the AEC Blueprint.
In the second evaluation round (2010-October 2011), Asean as a whole achieved 68.6 per cent of the preparation guidelines.
"Guidelines missed out in this round mostly involved the customs procedure, service trade, product standard, transportation and consumer protection," said Srirat Rastapana, director-general of the Dpartment of Trade Negotiations.
In the first round (2008-2009), Thailand achieved 93.64 per cent against Asean's average 83.8 per cent.
