{"id":3794,"date":"2013-12-30T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2013-12-30T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:02:34","slug":"thai-e-newsletter-for-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/thai-e-newsletter-for-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai E-Newsletter for December, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Commerce Ministry to talk to U.S. Ambassador on child labor issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK, 24 Dec 2013. The Commerce Ministry is planning to talk to the U.S. ambassador next month regarding the ministry&#8217;s efforts in eradicating child labor.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent Secretary to the Commerce Ministry Ms. Srirat Rastapana said the move is in response to the United States\u2019 2013 human trafficking reports, which claimed that the maritime, sugarcane, and textile industries<br \/>\nin Thailand have been exploiting child labor.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the ministry is ready to work with private and other related agencies to address the issue,<br \/>\nsaying that the ministry is meeting with U.S. ambassador to Thailand Kristie Kenney next month as regards the<br \/>\nnation\u2019s efforts and development in dealing with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed her hope that being transparent and showing sincerity on addressing the problem would secure<br \/>\nThailand\u2019s place in the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.<\/p>\n<p>The GSP is a trade program providing preferential duty-free entry for products from beneficiary developing<br \/>\ncountries in order to promote economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>[dcs_link icon=&#8221;download&#8221;<br \/>\nurl=&#8221;http:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ENewsletters\/OCANewsletterDec13.pdf&#8221;]Please download the full newsletter here[\/dcs_link].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Ministry to talk to U.S. Ambassador on child labor issue BANGKOK, 24 Dec 2013. The Commerce Ministry is planning to talk to the U.S. ambassador next month regarding the ministry&#8217;s efforts in eradicating child labor. Permanent Secretary to the Commerce Ministry Ms. Srirat Rastapana said the move is in response to the United States\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,23,14],"tags":[43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercethaiusa.org\/oca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}