Agreement reached on Thai trade

15 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Trade
ACMECS / ACMECS business council / ASEAN neighbours / Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy / Bangkok / bilateral trade / Cambodia Chamber of Commerce / Cambodian-Thai Business Council / CCC / Council for the Development of Cambodia / Economic Development / economic relations / Embassy of Thailand / foreign trade promotion office / Investment / Laos / Mekong-area countries / Myanmar / Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra / Siem Reap / Thai governments / Thailand’s Chamber of Commerce / Trade / Vientiane

After years of discussion, the Cambodian and Thai governments on Tuesday agreed at the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Co-operation Strategy (ACMECS) summit in Laos to establish a Cambodian-Thai Business Council in a bid to enhance trade and investment between the ASEAN neighbours after a decline in the past few years. Nguon Meng Tech, director general of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) told the Post on Thursday, after his return from the two-day meeting of Mekong-area countries, that the president of the CCC and Thailand’s Chamber of Commerce had signed a memorandum of understanding, witnessed by both prime ministers, in Laos’s capital, Vientiane, on Tuesday. …

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