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Thailand's Department of Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Commerce has launched a website dubbed the ''National Trade Repository'' (NTR), an information gateway on the country's international trade regulations.
NTR has centralized control over information about general import tariffs, preferential tariffs, rules of origin, non-tariff measures, national trade and customs laws and regulations, and lists of authorized traders.
Under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint, all member countries have agreed to harmonize and standardize trade and customs, processes, procedures and related information flows to reduce transaction costs in ASEAN which will enhance export competitiveness and facilitate the integration of ASEAN into a single market for goods, services and investments and a single production base. Therefore, member countries have contributed to establish ASEAN Trade Repository by 2015 which would serve as a gateway of regulatory information at the regional and national levels.
