Abstract:
The establishment of FTA between Thailand and other countries will generate many activities such raw materials, products, spare parts movement including numerous business and financial transaction. For this research, the research would like to measure the impact from logistics perspective including readiness assessment of Thailand. The scope is to collect data of trade between Thailand, China and India. Two to four digits of Harmonized System from 1999-2003 has
been used with Pareto Theory to create the ranking of Top Thai Exporter. The sample size is narrowed down to 102 companies.The results from questionnaire show that, in order to minimize transportation cost, marine transport is the mode of choice. However, number of available container is the big issue for top exporters. For inland transport; trucking is now suffering rising cost and time limit on road. The problems of pre-FTA period are the complexity and delay caused by customs authority. During this period, logistics personnel are expected to conduct internal collaboration only.The problems of post-FTA period are the lack of transport infrastructure and the crease of transportation cost while the delay of customs and banking transaction is moderate. Anyway, government agencies has played more proactive role to streamline transport infrastructure and
relevant polices. Production warehouse seems to be the most appropriate way to manage and store inventories in both before and after FTA period.The best way to cope with the situation is to offer broad-based logistics education to business sector. Moreover, both government agencies and private sector should take all impact into account to create short term and long term plan so Thailand will be able to prosper in the difficult time.