Loaded pickups queue at the Phu Nam Rom checkpoint in Muang district of Kanchanburi, after the border reopened on Wednesday for two days of trading. (Photo: https://www.bangkokpost.com/) Bangkok (VNA) - Trade between Thailand andMyanmar resumed in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province on February 3 after Thaiauthorities temporarily eased COVID-19 restriction measures for two days.
Local newspaper Bangkok Post quoted Terdsak Kittiwarakul, secretary-general of the Thai-Myanmar border trade association at Ban PhuNam Ron, as saying Myanmar needed consumer goods from Thailand, and importedseafood and red onions through the province.
He expected about 1 million THB would be generated from theresumption of trade at Ban Phu Nam Ron on February 3, and a similar amount on.
Kanchanaburi unilaterally shut the border with Myanmar followingthe coronavirus outbreak there. The border will be closed again after February4 trading. Cigarettes and alcoholic drinks are banned.
Border trade in Mae Sot district of Tak province and Mae Sai districtof Chiang Rai resumed on February 1. The Mae Sot checkpoint is a key bordertrading post, with goods heading for Myanmar’s Yangon mainly transportedthrough this crossing.
Thailand and Myanmar share a border line spanning about 2,400km./.
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