BANGKOK - Thailand still has time to renegotiate with the United States over a suspension of duty-free preferences on imports of Thai goods before the suspension takes effect in April, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday.
The United States last month suspended duty-free treatment for $1.3 billion worth of Thai imports, including seafood products, under its Generalized System of Preferences programme, saying Thailand did not afford workers “internationally recognised worker rights”. During a speech about U.S. commitment in Asia, Ross said that he would be remiss if he did not address the GSP issue given its publicity in Thailand.
Someone woke him up to make that statement.
Most of the leaders of the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ignored the US summit on Monday, only Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-Och arrived, who is the chairman of the organization in 2019, the heads of government of Vietnam and Laos
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