The suspension of official border trade between Mae Sot and Karen State in Myanmar, due to the ongoing fighting on this key Asia Highway trading route, will cause increased foodshortages, and other impacts, say economic experts. Since December 1,intense fighting has erupted between the junta army and the revolutionary joint forces on Asian Road in Karen State’s Kawkareik
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The Commerce Ministry plans to ask state-owned banks to consider granting low-interest loans to help small Thai entrepreneurs in Myanmar that have been forced to temporarily close for almost a month as a confrontation between the military regime and protesters escalates.
Thai manufacturers that use Myanmar as their export base are also desperate after the US said earlier it would consider suspending the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programme for Myanmar, making Naypyitaw lose tariff-free access to the US market for certain goods.
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