{"id":409558,"date":"2026-04-25T02:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/409558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:23:21","slug":"thai-exports-hit-historic-high-as-march-shipments-surge-18-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/409558\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai exports hit historic high as March shipments surge 18.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imports were valued at US$38,496.6 million, up 35.7%, resulting in a trade deficit of US$3,339.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, in the first three months of 2026, exports were valued at US$96,169.9 million, up 17.6% from the same period of the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Imports were valued at US$105,646.4 million, up 32.4%, resulting in a trade deficit of US$9,476.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>On the Middle East issue, the impact on exports began to be seen in March.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s major export market in the region is the UAE, which has already declined.<\/p>\n<p>The market remains difficult to predict because of its high volatility.<\/p>\n<p>TPSO has set out three scenarios for Thai exports in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In the best-case scenario, exports would expand by 8%, with a value of US$366,806 million, assuming current problems ease in the second quarter, electronics continue to grow and remain a real supply-chain driver supporting Thai exports, and global demand remains in place.<\/p>\n<p>In the second scenario, exports would expand by 3%, with a value of US$349,824 million, assuming the conflict does not significantly affect shipping routes and the global economic slowdown and inflation are not severe and remain manageable.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777083801_101_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Thai exports hit historic high as March shipments surge 18.7%\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imports were valued at US$38,496.6 million, up 35.7%, resulting in a trade deficit of US$3,339.5 million. Overall, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,3472,453,85,46,47,98750,114994,1348],"class_list":["post-409558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-food","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-shipments","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}