No trader dares import Thai goods to
Independent
Mon News Agency
No traders have dared to import Thai goods into
The cars started their routing via the Three Pagoda Pass-Thaphyuzayart road Nov. 24 when just a small number of cars
was routed in a day, according to a routing car owner. “We only carry people.
We do not dare carry goods,” a routing car owner with a car license."
“The army tried to seize every imported good. That’s why nobody
dares to carry (them) in their cars at the moment,” said a general goods trader
based in Three Pagoda Pass.
Cars without licenses that were routed in previous years do not
dare use the road. Although the cease-fire groups and local traders negotiated
with the local base army to allow the route, Nankwin
village-based Burmese Military Operation Tactical Commander Col. Tin Aye denied
cars without licenses enttry to
According to a routing car owner, cars with licenses can be
routed, and the commander told him the army does not care to seize cars from
cease-fire groups.
“If the cease-fire groups guarantee car owners protection for
their cars against seizure, car owners will use the route. But the cease-fire
groups can’t give guarantees for that. At the moment, car owners do not dare
use the route because everything is illegal,” a car owner close to the
cease-fire groups said.
The army strongly restricted importing Thai goods such as cars,
drinks, food, oil, makeup and some other goods.
“If the army continues restricting and barring Thai goods, the
Thai-Burma border trade in the area will decrease,” a trader said, expressing
his opinion.
Trading was delayed on the border this year as 100 more
car-trading businesspersons lost their jobs. Most are businesspersons joined in
doing business with cease-fire groups and some members of ceasefire groups.
According to a routing car owner, three cars without licenses were
routed Nov. 27, but the tactical commander did not allow tthem
to cross at Nankwin village, about 30 miles further
from Three Pagoda Pass.
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