{"id":601665,"date":"2026-08-23T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601665\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:36:11","slug":"thai-retailers-demand-crackdown-on-influx-of-cheap-foreign-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601665\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Retailers Demand Crackdown on Influx of Cheap Foreign Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Thai Retailers Association has called on ministers to enforce strict product standards and tax foreign e-commerce platforms to protect local SMEs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thai retailers have called on the government to crack down on the massive influx of cheap foreign goods entering the country through cross-border e-commerce platforms, warning that unfair price competition is threatening the survival of millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thailand&#8217;s 3.3 million SMEs employ roughly 13.6 million people, accounting for nearly 70% of total private sector employment. However, shifting consumer habits and aggressive foreign market expansion have placed unprecedented pressure on domestic traders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a report published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.posttoday.com\/smart-sme\/747300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Post Today<\/a>, Nath Vongphanich, president of the Thai Retailers Association (TRA), highlighted a sharp divergence in retail channels. Online sales in Thailand jumped by 23.5%, compared to 7.5% growth across physical stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite rapid digital adoption, the vast majority of top-selling items on major platforms originate from foreign sellers rather than local producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Thai Retailers Association has called on ministers to enforce strict product standards and tax foreign e-commerce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,86870,8177,113,61,60,117223,7905,183007,254933],"class_list":["post-601665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-dumping","tag-e-commerce","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-online-business","tag-platforms","tag-retail-sector","tag-the-thai-retailers-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}