More Thai community products reserved on world market

BANGKOK, May 29 (TNA) - The Thai government, through the Ministry of Commerce, is promoting and exploring "more rooms" for local value-added community products on the world market. Banjongjitt Angsusingh, Director-General of the ministry's Department of International Trade Promotion, told journalists on Wednesday that her department and the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Commerce, in conjunction with provincial commercial offices, have worked together to promote more exports of the selected Thai community products to the world market under the "Local to Global" initiative. Banjongjitt explained that under the initiative, a total of about 50 items of selected Thai community goods will be supported to be shipped to the world market, 31 items of which will be food and processed farm products, followed by health and beauty products, creatively industrial and cultural capital goods and electronic machines. Banjongjitt said that the "Local to Global" initiative is the start of the co-working between Thailand's provincial commercial offices and top commercial envoys who are stationed in 53 foreign economies worldwide to assist potential producers of the selected local community products to expand their markets globally despite the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The senior official acknowledged that the "matching" between Thailand's provincial commercial offices and top envoys worldwide will become a joint force to support producers and exporters of the selected Thai community products to ship more goods to the world market more concretely. According to the senior official, results from such the matching mission between Thailand's provincial commercial offices and top envoys worldwide, including their selected products and agreed foreign markets to be explored for the local producers, will be reported to Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, who oversees economic affairs, at a scheduled meeting between the deputy premier and the top Thai commercial envoys in Bangkok on May 31. (TNA)