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Article: Thailand: marketplace and gateway to Indochina.
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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U.S. exporters are taking advantage of a rapidly expanding economy and growing consumer demand in Thailand to put an increasing variety of U.S. food exports on Thai supermarket shelves.
This market is doubly important for U.S. exporters who are finding Thailand to be a gateway for trade with southern China, Laos, Cambodia,Vietnam and Burma.
In 1991, Thailand imported $2.4 billion worth of agricultural products. By 1995,this figure jumped more than 71 percent to $4.1 billion.
Thailand ranks 18th worldwide as an importer of U.S. agricultural products. Between 1991 and 1996, U.S. exports to Thailand of agricultural, fishery and forestry products more than ...