Commerce Ministry set to discuss measure to boost export
Director-General of the
Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), Nantawan Sakuntanak,
has disclosed that Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom will meet
with the Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC), the Federation of Thai
Industries (FTI) and the Thai National Shipper’s Council (TNSC) to
discuss plans to boost the country’s export this year.
Nantawan explained that the export situation during the past four
months still saw a negative growth of 3.86 percent given flood-affected
factories have not yet regained their full production and export
capacities.
Additionally, the global economic
slowdown, especially in the main markets, namely the European Union and
the USA , has also contributed to the poor growth.
Therefore, the DITP Director-General said that both approaches,
proactive and reactive, must be devised in order to boost Thailand’s
export in 2012 to meet the 15% target, worth 263 billion dollars.-VNA