{"id":39343,"date":"2025-08-01T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39343\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:36:16","slug":"thai-chamber-of-commerce-praises-19-us-tax-deal-urges-govt-to-prepare-for-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39343\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Chamber of Commerce praises 19% US tax deal, urges govt to prepare for impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">Poj Aramwatananont, Chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, expressed high praise for the Thailand negotiation team (&#8220;Team Thailand&#8221;) for successfully reaching a 19% reciprocal tariff agreement with the United States, which allows Thailand to remain competitive with its regional counterparts. Countries like Indonesia and Vietnam currently face similar tariff rates of 19% and 20%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Although the new tariff rate is higher than the previous 10%, Poj regarded it as a strong achievement, especially considering that Thailand had faced the possibility of a 36% tariff. The fact that Team Thailand managed to lower the figure to 19% within a limited timeframe demonstrated their dedication, strategic understanding, and proactive negotiation abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Thai Chamber of Commerce believes that, while the tariff rate is higher than before, Thailand can still compete effectively in the region with a rate close to that of other ASEAN countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poj Aramwatananont, Chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, expressed high praise for the Thailand negotiation team (&#8220;Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2456,879,45,49,48,46,9383,4992,28488,772],"class_list":["post-39343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asean","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-tariffs","tag-thai-chamber-of-commerce","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}