General Industrial Zone:
The IEAT provides industrial operators in a General Industrial Zone with comprehensive services essential for industrial operation – such as transportation, warehouses, training centers and clinics – as well as permission to own land required for their operations.
Investors in a General Industrial Zone are granted permission to operate service businesses in the General Industrial Zone.
IEAT Free Zone
Operators in an IEAT Free Zone are afforded the privilege of exporting products without any restrictions and with the added convenience of being able to bring merchandise or raw materials into an IEAT Free Zone. Supplies taken into an IEAT Free Zone are entitled to improved tax and duty privileges, including tax burden relief for products taken out of an IEAT Free Zone for domestic use or consumption and content or raw material components, if produced domestically, are entitled to tax and duty exemptions.
Operators in an IEAT Free Zone remain entitled to privileges indicated in the previous Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act.
Operators are granted permission to import into Thailand or bring into an IEAT Free Zone, merchandise and raw materials for production, trade or service offering, without any restriction that importation of such material is limited to business operators.
Export goods producers are also permitted to bring supplies or raw materials into an IEAT Free Zone for manufacturing, mixing, assembling, packing or any other operations, without requiring any import permits or particular seals or symbols and with exemptions from standard and quality control requirements contained in any other laws — except those found in the customs law.