List 1: Businesses that are not permitted for foreigners to operate due to special reasons:

• Newspaper, journalistic enterprise, broadcast radio station enterprise, television station enterprise

• Farming, cultivation or horticulture

• Animal farming 

• Forestry and timber conversion from natural forests

• Fishery, especially in Thai territorial waters and in specific economic zone of Thailand

• Thai herb extraction

• Trade and auction sale of Thai antiques or objects of historical value

• Making or casting of Buddha images and alms bowls

• Land trade

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List 2: Businesses related to national safety or security, arts and culture, traditional and folk handicraft, or natural resources and environment:

I. Category 1 - Businesses concerning national security or safety​​

• Manufacturing, distribution and repair of:

  • Firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, and explosive materials​

  • Components of firearms, ammunition, and explosive materials

  • Armaments, ships, aircraft, or military vehicles

  • Equipment or parts of any type of war equipment

• Domestic land transportation, water transportation, or air transportation, including domestic aviation

II. Category 2 - Businesses that could have an adverse effect on arts and culture, customs, and native manufacturing/handicrafts​​

• Trading of antiques or artifacts that are Thai works of art or Thai handicrafts

• Wood carving

• Silkworm rearing, manufacture of Thai silk, Thai silk weaving, or Thai silk printing

• Manufacturing of Thai musical instruments

• Manufacturing of gold-ware, silverware, nielloware, bronzeware, or lacquerware

• Making bowls or earthenware which are of Thai art and culture

III. Category 3 - Businesses that could have an adverse effect on natural resources or the environment​​

• Manufacturing of sugar from cane

• Salt farming, including rock salt farming

• Mining of rock salt

• Mining, including stone quarrying or crushing

• Timber processing for making furniture and utilities

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List 3: Businesses in which Thai nationals are not yet ready and do not have prompt operating abilities to compete with foreigners.

• Rice milling and flour production from rice and plants

• Fisheries, specifically breeding of aquatic creatures

• Forestry from replanting

• Production of plywood, veneer, chipboard or hardboard

• Production of lime

• Accounting services

• Legal services

• Architecture

• Engineering

• Construction, except:

  • Construction of infrastructure in public utilities or communications requiring tools, technology or special expertise in such construction, except where the minimum foreign capital is 500M THB or more​

  • Other construction stipulated in the ministerial orders

• Agency or brokerage, except:​

  • Being a broker or agent for underwriting securities or services connected with future trading of agricultural commodities or financial instruments or securities

  • Being a broker or agent for trading or procuring goods or services necessary for production or rendering services amongst affiliated enterprises

  • Being a broker or agent for trading, purchasing or distributing or seeking both domestic and foreign markets for selling domestically manufactured or imported goods in the manner of international business operations having the foreigners' minimum capital of 100M THB or more

  • Being a broker or agent of other category as stipulated in the ministerial orders

• Auction, except:

  • Auction in the manner of international bidding, not being auctions of antiques, ancient objects or artifacts that are Thai works of art, Thai handicrafts or antique objects, or with Thai historical value​

  • Other types of auction, as stipulated in the ministerial orders

• Domestic trade relating to local agricultural products or produces that has not yet been prohibited by law​

• Retailing all categories of goods having less than 100M THB capital in total or having the minimum capital of each shop of less than 20M THB 

• Wholesaling, all categories of goods having minimum capital of each shop less than 100M THB 

• Advertising

• Hotel operation, excluding hotel management

• Tourism

• Sale of food and beverages

• Planting and culture of plants

• Other services, except those stipulated in the ministerial order