The integration of the ASEAN Economic Community is scheduled to become effective in half a year. Thailand, strategically located in the center of the region, plays a key role in supporting such development in various ways. One of its strategies is the establishment of 10 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) along the border. The 10 SEZs include Tak and Kanchanaburi provinces which border Myanmar, Chiang Rai on the Thailand-Lao-Myanmar border, Mukdaharn, Nong Khai and Nakhon Phanom on Thailand-Laos border, Trat and Sa Kaew on the Thailand-Cambodia border, and Songkhla and Narathiwas in the southern part of Thailand which borders Malaysia.