{"id":5779,"date":"2021-07-04T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/article\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-in-may-grew-by-38-up-for-5-consecutive-months\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:33:48","slug":"border-trade-and-cross-border-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/article\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Border trade and cross-border trade in May grew by 38%, up for 5 consecutive months!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\" id=\"&#xE01;&#xE32;&#xE23;&#xE04;-&#xE32;&#xE1C;-&#xE32;&#xE19;&#xE41;&#xE14;&#xE19;\">Cross-border trade<\/h2>\n\n<p>By Mr. Jurin Laksanawisit, Minister of Commerce, revealed the figures of border trade and cross-border trade in May, which is as high as 150,858 million baht or +38%, which has expanded continuously for 5 consecutive months this year, totaling 677,078 million baht, or a growth rate of 29.15%. It is expected that this year will be able to surpass the target of 1.4 trillion baht.<\/p>\n\n<p>The value of border and cross-border trade in May can be divided into:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Border trade 75,659 million baht (+4.13%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cross-border trade 75,199 million baht (+7.45%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>If combined from the beginning of the year (January &#8211; May), it can be divided into<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Border trade 371,040 million baht (+19.85%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cross-border trade 306,038 million baht (+42.57%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1449\" class=\"gsbp-4066f79 wp-image-365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-01.webp\" alt=\"&#xE02;&#xE49;&#xE2D;&#xE21;&#xE39;&#xE25;&#xE01;&#xE32;&#xE23;&#xE04;&#xE49;&#xE32;&#xE0A;&#xE32;&#xE22;&#xE41;&#xE14;&#xE19;&#xE41;&#xE25;&#xE30;&#xE1C;&#xE48;&#xE32;&#xE19;&#xE41;&#xE14;&#xE19; &#xE1B;&#xE35; 2564\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-01.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-01-212x300.webp 212w, https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-01-724x1024.webp 724w, https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-01-768x1087.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gsbp-2c2242f\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gsbp-e996634 wp-image-366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-02.webp\" alt=\"&#xE41;&#xE1C;&#xE19;&#xE1C;&#xE25;&#xE31;&#xE01;&#xE14;&#xE31;&#xE19;&#xE40;&#xE1B;&#xE34;&#xE14;&#xE0A;&#xE48;&#xE2D;&#xE07;&#xE17;&#xE32;&#xE07;&#xE1C;&#xE48;&#xE32;&#xE19;&#xE41;&#xE14;&#xE19;&#xE02;&#xE2D;&#xE07;&#xE44;&#xE17;&#xE22;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1449\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-02.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-02-212x300.webp 212w, https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-02-724x1024.webp 724w, https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/border-trade-and-cross-border-trade-02-768x1087.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n\n<p>The factors that make trade positive are as follows:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Continuously pushing for the opening of border checkpoints to increase border trade (46 checkpoints have been opened from 97 checkpoints that were closed and will be opened 11 more checkpoints)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration between the Ministry of Commerce and the private sector to accelerate and proactively resolve issues so that goods crossing each country&#8217;s borders can pass more conveniently and quickly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Economic stimulus measures and increased vaccinations by each country have led to the reopening of cities and increased economic activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Data source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dft.go.th\/th-th\/NewsList\/News-DFT\/Description-News-DFT\/ArticleId\/19200\/19200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Foreign Trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revealing the figures for border trade and cross-border trade in May, it was as high as 150,858 million baht, which has continuously expanded for 5 consecutive months this year, totaling 677,078 million baht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":".gsbp-2c2242f,.gsbp-4066f79,.gsbp-e996634{justify-self:center}","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkkterminal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}