Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit has ordered the International Trade Promotion Department to speed up the organisation of online business matching with Chinese and Hong Kong importers to boost Thai exports to China after China hit Taiwan with trade curbs amid tensions over the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island.
Trade counsellors in China have also been ordered to speed up surveying categories of products that Thailand could export to satisfy demand in China and substitute the products that Taiwan cannot export to China, especially food and beverage products including instant noodles, frozen fresh fish, snacks and fruits.
China rolled out curbs on Wednesday on the import of more than 2,000 Taiwanese food imports into China, from fresh produce to processed food, while halting shipments of sand to the island in the wake of the visit by Ms Pelosi.
