Research On The Thailand Foreign Investment Law

Thailand to other ASEAN countries, belong to the earlier achieved nationalindependence. Since the country’s independence, has been pursuing a policy of freemarket economy, while pursuing economic privatization and trade liberalization, theimplementation of the strategy of economic liberalization and opening policy.As earlyas the1950s began to formulate laws and regulations relating to foreign investment.With Thailand’s economic development and improve the living standards of nationallife, from the beginning of the1970s, Thailand continue to improve the country’sforeign investment environment, and foreign investment in improving the legalsystem has done a great deal of effort. The current investment law was enacted in1977and implemented the "Investment Incentives Act", the Thai government in1999and the government has successively in2001,"Investment Incentives Law" conductedtwo additions and modifications to provide more favorable to foreign investorspolicies and investment protection. The Uniform Act applies to Thais and foreigninvestors. In this paper, in1977Thailand "Investment Incentives Law," enacted in1999,"Foreign business" and other special law on foreign investment, based on acomprehensive system to sort out the legal regime for foreign investment in Thailandand from the practical point of view of Chinese enterprises to invest in Thailand madelegal advice.The thesis is divided into five chapters, hierarchically related content elaboratedlegal regime for foreign investment in Thailand. The first chapter discusses thehistorical development and foreign investment legislation mode Thailand’s legalsystem, the second chapter of the Thai legal system, foreign investment investmentinvestment access system. The third chapter discusses the Thai legal system, foreigninvestment management system. The fourth chapter discusses the Thai legal system,foreign investment encouragement and protection of investments. The fifth chapterdiscusses the legal risks and legal advice to Chinese companies to invest in Thailand.Specifically the following structure:The first chapter is an overview of Thailand’s foreign investment law, startingwith the development process of the foreign investment law in Thailand to start, andthen discusses the legislative model of Thailand’s Foreign Investment Law and itscharacteristics. The second chapter elaborates foreign access system in Thailand. This chapterdiscusses four aspects, first, the scope of foreign access in Thailand, followed byapplication and approval of investment, an important application and approvalprocedures for foreign access. Discussed again in the form of investment access.Finally, access to foreign investment in Thailand, a brief evaluation of the system.The third chapter discusses the management system of foreign investment inThailand. In this chapter first discusses the problem of foreign companies operatingautonomy, followed by discussion of the composition and the investment proportionof foreign capital, foreign exchange management is again Problem, and finally foreigninvestment management system evaluation.The fourth chapter discusses the legal system to protect and encourage foreigninvestment in Thailand. This section has four aspects, namely to explore the Thaigovernment to give protection to foreign investors, encourage and treatment as well asthe dispute resolved. Finally, the legal system for the protection and encouragement offoreign investment in Thailand made a brief analysis.The fifth chapter describes the legal risks and legal advice for Chineseenterprises to invest in Thailand. Analyzes the current situation of Chinese enterprisesinvesting in Thailand, and then discuss the legal risks Chinese enterprises to invest inThailand, put forward again legal advice.