Picture News FPO Announced the Monthly Economic Report for December 2010 Mr. Naris Chaiyasoot, the director general of the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO), together with Mr. Boonchai Charassaengsomboon, the director of Macroeconomic Policy Bureau, jointly announced the monthly economic report for December 2010 that Thai economy in December 2010 and the fourth quarter of 2010 expanded at a better-than-expected rate due to the increase of Value Added Tax (VAT) at 10.4 percent, the import of consumption at 15.9 percent, the export of electronic and agricultural goods at 18.8 percent, at Press Release Room, Ministry of Finance, January 28 2011.

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