DELIVERING ON RECIPROCAL TRADE: President Donald J. Trump introduced a trade deal that may present Americans with unprecedented ranges of market entry. The United States and the Kingdom of Thailand (Thailand) agreed to a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, which is able to strengthen our bilateral relationship and supply American exporters with entry to Thailand’s market whereas bolstering U.S. nationwide and financial safety.
Key phrases of the U.S.-Thailand Agreement on Reciprocal Trade will embrace:
- Tariffs:
- Thailand will get rid of tariffs on 99 p.c of products, overlaying a full vary of U.S. industrial and meals and agricultural merchandise.
- The United States will preserve a 19 p.c reciprocal tariff price for imports of Thailand and can establish merchandise from the checklist set out in Annex III, to Executive Order 14346 of September 5, 2025, Potential Tariff Adjustments for Aligned Partners, to obtain a zero p.c reciprocal tariff price.
- Breaking Down Non-Tariff Barriers for U.S. Industrial Exports: Thailand has dedicated to addressing boundaries to U.S. exports, together with by: (1) accepting U.S. manufactured automobiles manufactured to adjust to U.S. federal motorcar security and emissions requirements; (2) accepting U.S. Food and Drug Administration certificates and prior advertising authorizations for medical gadgets and prescribed drugs as adequate to fulfill Thailand’s necessities; (3) issuing import permits for U.S. ethanol for gasoline; (4) amending its customs legal guidelines to take away the customs reward system associated to customs breaches and penalties; and (5) adopting and implementing good regulatory practices.
- Breaking Down Non-Tariff Barriers for U.S. Agriculture Exports: Thailand will handle and stop boundaries to U.S. meals and agricultural merchandise within the Thai market, together with by: (1) expediting entry for U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service-certified meat and poultry merchandise; (2) addressing commerce irritants and guarantee necessities imposed on U.S. horticultural merchandise, together with for distiller dried grains with solubles, are science- and risk-based; and (3) accepting at present agreed certificates issued by U.S. regulatory authorities.
- Removing Barriers for Digital Trade, Services, and Investment: The United States and Thailand will finalize commitments to deal with boundaries impacting digital commerce, providers, and funding, together with: (1) refraining from imposing digital providers taxes or measures that discriminate in opposition to U.S. digital providers or digital merchandise; (2) making certain the free switch of knowledge throughout trusted borders for the conduct of enterprise; (3) supporting a everlasting moratorium on customs duties on digital transmissions on the WTO; (4) refraining from imposing display quotas for movie; (5) eradicating in-country processing necessities for all home retail digital fee transactions for debit playing cards issued in Thailand; and (6) easing overseas possession restrictions for U.S. funding in Thailand’s telecommunications sector.
- Protecting and Enforcing Intellectual Property: The United States and Thailand will finalize commitments on mental property, together with on geographical indications. Thailand commits to resolve long-standing mental property points, together with concerning enforcement in opposition to trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy, rogue collective administration organizations, circumvention of technological safety measures, and the patent backlog.
- Strengthening Economic Security Alignment: The United States and Thailand are dedicated to strengthening cooperation to extend provide chain resilience. This contains taking complementary actions to deal with unfair commerce insurance policies and practices of third events, cooperating on export controls and funding safety, and addressing obligation evasion.
- Strengthening Labor Protections: Thailand has dedicated to bettering protections of internationally acknowledged labor rights, together with by working to amend its regulation to strengthen protections for employees’ rights to freedom of affiliation and collective bargaining; and strengthening enforcement of labor legal guidelines together with by addressing violations in sectors with a excessive danger for compelled labor and baby labor.
- Strengthening Environmental Enforcement: Thailand has dedicated to undertake and preserve excessive ranges of environmental safety and to successfully implement its environmental legal guidelines.
- Notching Commercial Deals: United States and Thailand pay attention to the forthcoming business offers between U.S. and Thai firms within the agriculture, vitality, and aviation sectors, together with: (1) buy of agriculture merchandise together with feed corn, soybean meal, and dried distiller grains with solubles with an estimated worth of $2.6 billion per 12 months; (2) purchases of vitality merchandise, together with liquefied pure gasoline, crude oil, and ethane, with an estimated worth of $5.4 billion per 12 months, and (3) procurement of 80 U.S. plane, totaling $18.8 billion.
THE PROSPEROUS PATH FORWARD: In the approaching weeks, the United States and Thailand will proceed negotiations and finalize the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade so as to lock in advantages for American companies.
- The Agreement will allow U.S. farmers, ranchers, fishers, and producers, and small companies to extend U.S. exports, and increase enterprise alternatives, and it’ll assist cut back the products commerce deficit with Thailand.
- The United States at present runs its eleventh largest items commerce deficit with Thailand. The U.S. complete items commerce deficit was $45 billion in 2024.
LIBERATING AMERICA FROM UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES: President Trump challenged the idea that American employees and companies should tolerate unfair commerce practices which have deprived them for many years and contributed to our historic commerce deficit.
- On April 2, President Trump declared a nationwide emergency in response to the unprecedented menace prompted to the United States by the massive and protracted U.S. commerce deficit brought on by an absence of reciprocity in our bilateral commerce relationships, disparate unfair tariff charges and non-tariff boundaries, and U.S. buying and selling companions’ financial insurance policies that suppress home wages and consumption.
- President Trump continues to advance the pursuits of the American individuals and our agricultural sector by eradicating tariff and non-tariff boundaries and increasing market entry for American exporters.
- Today’s announcement gives a tangible path ahead with Thailand that underscores the President’s dedication to bringing balanced, reciprocal commerce with an necessary buying and selling associate.