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List 2 Businesses involving with national safety and security
and affecting art and culture, custom and tradition, local crafts or
natural resources and the environment
Group 2 Businesses affecting art and culture, custom and tradition
and
local crafts are these following 6 items:
1. Trade of antiques, art materials that are art objects and crafts of
Thailand
2. Production of wood carvings
3. Silk worm husbandry, production of Thai silk thread, Weaving of
Thai silk cloth and printing design on Thai silk cloth
4. Production of Thai musical instruments
5. Production of goldware, silverware, nielloware, polished stone
goldware or lacquerware
6. Production of Thai art crockery, pottery

Group 3 Businesses affecting natural resources and environments
are
these following 5 items:
1. Granulation of sugar from sugar canes
2. Salt farming, including salt farming from salty soil
3. Rock salt farming
4. Mining including blasting and crushing rock
5. Transformation of furniture and utensils
Business in list 2 must obtain approval from the Minister of
Commerce with approval from the Cabinet.
Source: DBD,2021, Doing business of foreigners According to the Foreign Business
Act, B.E. 2542, <https://www.dbd.go.th/download/foreign_file/pdf/foreing_basic.pdf>
and OSMEP, 2021, Applying for a permission to operate a business under the Foreign
Business Act BE. 2542 (1999), <
https://www.sme.go.th/upload/mod_download/download-20201027142127.pdf>

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