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Thailand Customs Department Defends Price Assessments.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2002

By Wichit Sirithaveeporn, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 27--The Customs Department says it has fulfilled its obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) in assessing prices of imported goods.

Manit Witayatem, the department's director-general, was responding to complaints by European Union representatives (EU), who visited him recently to discuss perceived inconsistencies.

Mr Manit said one of the cases that prompted the EU complaint involved a European automaker that had quoted a specific unit price for a car it exported to Thailand.

However, the Customs Department deemed the quoted price a "relationship" price that was too low for valuation purposes.

Several...

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