Quote Originally Posted by Mickmac View Post
I went to the Dept of Foreign Trade in Chiang Mai yesterday and had a talk to them, seems like not too much hassle to obtain an export license so will do that, think you have to have one of them to be able to obtain COO forms.
Yes, that's correct and it is indeed not difficult.
Having the export license as well as the "know-how" to obtain the CoO will help you when orders become bigger. So no waste here.

But that story with the shirts sounds strange.
We are ex- or importing a container a week on average. And we only deal with CoO if we (on Import) or the customer (on export) try to go for preferential Duty levels.
I also never heard of a CoO being required for a courier service. (But that doesn't mean it's impossible.)