By Piyawannee Watanasakolpunt and Norrapat Werajong Trade competition in Thailand has been regulated under the Trade Competition Act B.E. 2542 (1999) (the “Current Act”), which has remained unchanged for almost twenty years. On 7 July 2017, a new trade competition …
Background: The import and production of cosmetics in Thailand has long been regulated under the Cosmetics Act B.E. 2535 (1992) (the “Cosmetics Act 1992”), which has remained unchanged for more than twenty years. Thailand, as a member of the Association …
Thailand’s Trade Competition Act (TCA) has been labeled an unenforceable law since it went into effect in 1999, as there have no been no prosecutions under the TCA. But on 2 February 2016 the Cabinet approved draft amendments to the …
The Warehouse, Silo and Cold Storage Act (the “Act”) was signed into law on 22 August 2015 and will come into effect one hundred days following publication in the Government Gazette, which publication occurred on 27 August 2015. The Act’s …
The Department of Industrial Works (DIW) (กรมโรงงานอุตสาหกรรม) is a department under the supervision of the Thai Ministry of Industry (MOI). When the MOI was spun off from the Ministry of Commerce in 1942, the DIW was one of the first …
Panpilai Issariyapruit Thailand enacted a Thai Trade Competition Act in 1999 (“TCA”), which contains the major substantive provisions found in most other competition laws, including an abuse of market dominance provisions in Section 25, merger control provisions in Section 26, …
The penalty provisions in some Thai laws include a presumption that directors and managers of an entity found to be in violation of such laws were involved in the violation and should thus be held personally liable. The burden of …
In the United States, a purchaser of a mobile phone is typically required to enter into a service contract with a particular mobile phone operator. Under such an arrangement, consumers are able to acquire a new phone often at …
On February 6, 2008, the Alcoholic Beverages Control Act (ABCA) was enacted into law. The ABCA both introduces a number of new measures and codifies certain regulations that were already in effect. The ABCA provides for the designation of alcohol …
PriceSanond has significant experience registering various products on behalf of clients with the Thai government. Product registration in Thailand is based not only on the nature of the product, but also on the substances in the product and thus in …
Although the size and incidence of awards from defective goods claims have traditionally been relatively low in Thailand, this may be about to change. On 21 February 2009, the Unsafe Product Liability Act, B.E. 2551 (the Product Liability Act) came …