BKK Post / 6 August 1998

Laos denies plan to ban Thai goods 

    Laos has no policy to ban imports of certain Thai products,
according to Pracha Charutrakulchai, director-general of the
Foreign Trade Department.
    Mr Pracha said he had been told by authorities in Champassak
province that Vientiane had banned the import of all fruit, fish,
shrimps and clams, tables and chairs, amplifiers, tape players
and radios, desserts, distilled water for batteries, and acid, as
these could be made in Laos.
    But the Laotian Commerce and Tourism Ministry clarified that
there was no such ban, he said.