Jobs We Can / Can't Do

[trevmdurant]

Category A – Closed to Aliens

• Agricultural Businesses

• Rice farming

• Salt farming, including manufacture but excluding rock salt mining

• Commercial Businesses

• Internal trade in local agricultural products

• Land trade

• Service Businesses

• Accounting

• Law

• Architecture

• Advertising

• Brokerage or agency

• Auctioneering

• Barber, hairdressing, and beautification

• Other Businesses

• Building construction

Category B - Closed to Aliens unless promoted by the Board of Investment

• Agricultural Businesses

• Cultivation

• Orchard farming

• Animal husbandry, including silk worm raising

• Timbering

• Fishing

• Industrial and Handicraft Businesses

• Rice mill

• Manufacture of flour from rice field crops

• Manufacture of sugar

• Manufacture of beverages

• Alcoholic blending

• Manufacture of ice

• Manufacture of drugs

• Cold storage

• Wood processing

• Manufacture of products from gold, silver, niello, or bronze

• Manufacture or casting of images of Buddha and manufacture of alms bowls

• Manufacture of wood carvings

• Manufacture of lacquer ware

• Manufacture of all types of matches

• Manufacture of lime, cement, and cement products

• Stone blasting or crushing

• Manufacture of plywood, wood veneer, chip-board or hard-board

• Manufacture of garments or shoes except for export

• Printing press

• Newspaper publication

• Silk combing, silk weaving or printing of pattern or silk material

• Manufacture of products from silk, silk treads or silk cocoon.

• Commercial Businesses

• Retailing of all products except those specified in Category C (Below)

• Sale of mining products except those specified in Category C

• Sale of all types of food and beverage except those specified in Category C

• Sale of antiques, period antiques or works of art.

• Service Businesses

• Tour agencies

• Hotel business except hotel management

• Business under the law on service-providing establishments

• Photography, photographic developing and printing

• Laundry

• Tailoring and dressmaking

• Other Businesses

• Internal transport by land, water, or air.

Category C – Open to Aliens

• Business in Commerce

• Wholesales of all types of products within the country except those specified in Category A (Above)

• Export of all types of products

• Retailing machinery, equipment and tools

• Sale of food and beverage for the promotion of tourism

• Business in Industry and Handicrafts

• Manufacture of animal feeds

• Extraction of vegetable oil

• Manufacture of embroidering and knitting products including weaving, dyeing, and pattern printing

• Manufacture of glass containers including light bulbs

• Manufacture of crockery

• Manufacture of writing and printing paper

• Rock salt mining

• Mining

• Business in Services

• Except for those specified in Category A and Category B

• Other

• Other constructions except those specified in Category A

[trevmdurant]

Apologies, these are the business which we can involve ourselves in rather than occupations which we can have. Slight difference!

[Indo-Siam]

Not quite. These lists have absolutely nothing to do with what individidual foreigners can or cannot do. They apply only to restrictions on activities of foreign majority-owned companies.

Only Category A businesses are totally forbidden to foreign majority-owned companies.

For both Category B and category C busineses, foreign majority-owned companies can pursue these activities if they first obtain an Alien Business License (or, for American majority-owned businesses, Thai-US Amity Treaty certification). But - ABL's for Category B activities must be individually approved by the Thai cabinet, making it somewhat more difficult.

Full details are available in English at: http://www.thailawforum.com/database1/foreign.html

The list of occupations prohibited to foreign nationals in Thailand is at:

http://www.thailand.com/exports/html/law_b..._06_foreign.htm

Cheers!

Steve Sykes

Managing Director

Indo-Siam Group

Bangkok

[email protected]

www.thaistartup.com

[Khutan]

Other Businesses

I assume that means anything they havn't thought of at the time ???