The latest information we received from Royal Enfield HQ is that they're again looking for a Thai distributor. So it seems that the previous Royal Enfield distributor went under before they sold much motorcycles.

That means that the opportunity to become the Royal Enfield representative for Thailand is back on the table and we hope that somebody sooner than later picks-up this business...

Thailand and India have a Free-Trade Agreement and the motorcycles from Royal Enfield, according to the free trade agreement will be less than 4% import duty, 2014 they import duty will be even less....

Thanks for that update.

Agree that it would be great if some enterprising person picked up the RE opportunity here in Thailand;
then also supplied professional customer care and service.

Fingers crossed.

Thailand and India have a Free-Trade Agreement and the motorcycles from Royal Enfield, according to the free trade agreement will be less than 4% import duty, 2014 they import duty will be even less....[/p]

So why is it I can buy a KTM made in India 200 Duke here for just about 200,000 bt , where in India they are about 60,000 bt and the new 390 Duke is just over 100,000bt ?

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Thailand and India have a Free-Trade Agreement and the motorcycles from Royal Enfield, according to the free trade agreement will be less than 4% import duty, 2014 they import duty will be even less....

So why is it I can buy a KTM made in India 200 Duke here for just about 200,000 bt , where in India they are about 60,000 bt and the new 390 Duke is just over 100,000bt ?[/p][/QUOTE]

That is something you should discuss with the Thai KTM distributor, we cannot explain it. But the rules for the Thai – Indian free trade agreement is freely available to everybody and it specifies very clearly that vehicles (other than railway, tramway) from NT-1 products, like motorcycles with less than 250cc engine capacity should be 0% import duty, while motorcycles which have an engine capacity lager than 250cc (which is NT-2 tariff) should be 3% in 2013.

The KTM bikes, which are made in India, cannot be exported under the Indian – Thai/ASEAN FTA, as too much parts are not made in India.

Sorry NEWS but your information is wrong.

If you search the ASEAN tariff database you will see Thailand (and many other countries) have put motorcycles on the exempt list. So the import tariff remains 60%, this shows at both the ASEAN and the Thai databases.

Quote by: Marcel

Sorry NEWS but your information is wrong.

If you search the ASEAN tariff database you will see Thailand (and many other countries) have put motorcycles on the exempt list. So the import tariff remains 60%, this shows at both the ASEAN and the Thai databases.

It' s true that Thailand has motor vehicles currently on their exclusion list. In the last talks between Thailand and India pressed that they want complete tariff elimination under full liberalization.

Apparently the Thai customs house send us incomplete information, our excuses for that.