US Adds Thailand to Monitoring List

Matichon•International•267d ago

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The U.S. Treasury Department has placed Thailand on its Currency Monitoring List due to its current account surplus and trade surplus with the U.S.

•The U.S. Treasury Department added Thailand to its "monitoring list" on January 29.
•Thailand was added due to its expanding current account surplus and trade surplus with the U.S.
•Thailand meets two out of three U.S. criteria for countries on the monitoring list.
•Thailand joins nine other countries and economic regions already on the list, including China and Japan.

•The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Jan 29, that Thailand had been added to the 'monitoring list'.
•Thailand was added to the monitoring list due to its expanding current account surplus and trade surplus with the U.S.
•The U.S. Treasury Department's criteria for placing countries on the monitoring list include a trade surplus of at least $15 billion with the U.S., a global current account surplus of at least 3% of GDP, and continuous net foreign exchange purchases totaling 2% of GDP.
•Thailand meets two of the three criteria for U.S. currency monitoring.
•Thailand is now the 10th economy on the U.S. Treasury's monitoring list.
•The U.S. Treasury is intensifying scrutiny of exchange rate practices and market interventions by various countries.
•The U.S. Treasury's latest semi-annual report indicates no major trading partners met all three criteria for enhanced analysis during the second half of 2024 and the first six months of 2025.
•The U.S. Treasury will broadly monitor both sides of currency intervention behavior, including periods of both currency depreciation and appreciation.

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United States(สหรัฐ)ℹ️

The country that added Thailand to its currency monitoring list.

Thailand(ไทย)ℹ️

The country that was added to the U.S. currency monitoring list.

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