The Commerce Ministry has announced a ban on the import and export of eight product groups, including fake brand-name goods and elephant products.
The announcement, published in the Royal Gazette on Thursday, took effect on Wednesday.
The eight product categories are:
- Fake brand-name or copycat products
- Audio recording cassettes, compact discs, video tapes, computer programmes, books or other products which contain reproduced or modified copyrighted works of others
- Shishas or hookahs and their electronic versions
- Slot machines, as well as horse racing, pachinko and roulette machines, and other gaming machines operated by coins, both completely built or in parts
- Elephants
- Deity figures or parts, Buddha images and parts
- Antiquities originated abroad
- Caffeine