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

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

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

Other Businesses

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