{"id":313143,"date":"2025-08-02T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313143\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:50:11","slug":"thailand-secures-19-us-tariff-deal-boosting-competitive-edge-over-regional-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313143\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Secures 19% US Tariff Deal, Boosting Competitive Edge Over Regional Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Measures for Exporters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government is preparing comprehensive support measures for affected businesses, particularly exporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A soft loan programme will be presented to the Cabinet shortly, whilst immediate assistance is already available through the Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM Bank).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EXIM Bank has implemented debt moratoriums, debt restructuring, payment deferrals of up to 365 days, and interest rate reductions of approximately 20% for affected exporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bank has also increased credit facilities for working capital and expanded trade exhibition financing with export guarantee schemes to encourage market diversification.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economic Stimulus Deployment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding economic stimulus measures, Paopoom confirmed that 42 billion baht remains available from the 157 billion baht central budget allocation for economic stimulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government maintains flexibility to adjust measures according to prevailing circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;All sectors continue to face some impact, though less than initially projected. Everyone still has increased burdens and constraints, so it remains the government&#8217;s responsibility to provide ongoing support,&#8221; he concluded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remaining funds from the competitiveness enhancement fund and economic stimulus budget await final decisions and further consideration as the government evaluates the most appropriate deployment strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Support Measures for Exporters The government is preparing comprehensive support measures for affected businesses, particularly exporters. \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,6641,1700,49700,731,16,15,2612],"class_list":{"0":"post-313143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-competitiveness","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-finance-ministry","12":"tag-thailand","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114961856987870466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}