Thailand's SME Council presented the "3Access" strategy to the Industry Minister, targeting structural business challenges through three pillars: (1) Access to Finance—introducing Business Score and Capital Optimizer tools to improve lending criteria beyond credit scores; (2) Access to Market—proposing an SME Single Journey Framework and standardized SME classification across 20+ government agencies; (3) Access to Fairness—pushing for an SME Business Law and analyzing 159 legal gaps, plus reducing credit terms to 45 days to unlock ~250 billion baht for SMEs. The council also proposed a private-sector certification network to reduce export standards verification costs and help combat substandard imports flooding the market.
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