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BOI OEM Businesses and the Foreign Business Licenses (“FBL”)

OEM businesses are the businesses that make parts or subsystem used in another company's end products.   Good examples of OEM businesses are manufacturing of automotive parts.  Under Thai laws, OEM businesses may be deemed as hires of works.  Section 587 of the Civil and Commercial Code (“CCC”) provides the definition of hires of works “ A hire of work is a contract whereby a person, called the contractor agrees to accomplished a definite work for another person, call the employer, who agree to pay him a remuneration of the result of the work.”  

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