LIST ONE. The businesses not permitted for foreigners to operate due to special reasons:
      1. Newspaper business, radio broadcasting and television station business.
      2. Rice farming, farming or gardening.
      3. Animal farming.
      4. Forestry and wood fabrication from natural forest.
      5. Fishery for marine animals in Thai waters and within Thailand specific economic zones.
      6. Extraction of Thai herbs.
      7. Trading and auctioning Thai antiques or national historical objects.
      8. Making or casting Buddha images and monk alms bowls.
      9. Land trading.

LIST TWO: The business related to the national safety or security of affecting arts and culture, tradition, folk handicraft or natural resource and environment.

    Group 1: The businesses related to the national safety and security.

      1. Production, selling, repairing and maintenance of:
        a) Firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, explosives.
        b) Accessories of firearms, ammunition and explosives.
        c) Armaments, ships, air-crafts or military vehicles.
        e) Equipment of components, all categories of war materials.
      2. Domestic land, waterway or air transportation, including domestic airline business.

    Group 2: The business affecting arts and culture, traditional and folk handicraft:

        1) Trading antiques or art objects being Thai arts and handicraft.
        2) Production of carved wood.
        3) Silkworm farming, production of Thai silk yarn, weaving Thai silk or Thai silk pattern printing.
        4) Production of Thai musical instruments.
        5) Production of goldware, silverware, nielloware, bronzeware or lacquerware.
        6) Production of crockery of Thai arts and culture.

    Group 3: The business affecting natural resources or environment:

        1) Manufacturing sugar from sugarcane.
        2) Salt farming, including underground salt.
        3) Rock salt mining.
        4) Mining, including rock blasting or crushing.
        5) Wood fabrication for furniture and utensil production.

LIST THREE: The business, which Thai nationals are not yet ready to complete with foreigners:
       1) Rice milling and flour production from rice and farm produce.
       2) Fishery, specifically marine animal culture.
       3) Forestry from forestation.
       4) Production of plywood, veneer board, chipboard or hardboard.
       5) Production of lime.
       6) Accounting service business.
       7) Legal service business.
       8) Architecture service business.
       9) Engineering service business.
       10) Construction, except for:

        a) Construction rendering basic services to the public in public utilities or transport requiring special tools, machinery, technology or construction expertise, having the foreigners minimum capital of 500 million Baht or more.
        b) Other categories of construction as prescribed by ministerial regulations.

       11) Broker or agent business, except:
        a) Being broker or agent for underwriting securities or services connected with future trading of commodities or financing instruments or securities.
        b) Being broker or agent for trading or producing goods or services necessary for production or rendering services amongst affiliated enterprises.
        c) Being broker or agent for trading, purchasing or distribution or both domestic and foreign markets for selling domestically manufactured or imported goods in the manner of international business operations having the foreigners’ minimum capital of 100 million Baht or more.
        d) Being broker or agent of other category as prescribed by ministerial regulations.

       12) Auction, except:
        a) Auction in the manner of international bidding not being the auction of antiques, historical artifacts or art objects with are Thai works of arts, handicraft or antiques or having the historical value.
        b) Other categories of auction prescribed by the ministerial regulation.

       13) Internal trade connected with native agricultural products or produce not yet prohibited by law.
       14) Retailing all categories of goods having the total minimum capital less than 100 million Baht or having minimum capital of each shop less than 20 million Baht.
       15) Wholesaling all categories of goods having minimum capital of each shop less than 100 million Baht.
       16) Advertising business.
       17) Hotel business, except for hotel management service.
       18) Guided tour.
       19) Selling food or beverages.
       20) Plant cultivation and propagation business.
       21) Other categories of services except that prescribed in the ministerial regulation.

Proceeding from the above:
       • Types of business activities specified in LIST ONE is strictly prohibited for non-residents.
       • The LIST TWO is denied to non-residents, if there is no resolution of the regulator.
       • Types of business activities contained in the LIST THREE are prohibited without the permission of the General Director of Commercial Registration Department.

    Requirements of the legislation must be observed. Any company with members of non-residents may apply to the Office of Foreign Business License, if the activity is limited to legislation.

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