Abstract:
This research aims to study factors that affect decision of investors to invest in consumer
goods retail business in economic zone in border trade area Chiang Saen, Chiang Rai province. This
research also investigates how to support the investment in this aforementioned area highlighting
consumer goods retail business in Vieng Chiang Saen, Chiang Rai province. The information gathered
from 58 businesses in the retail business cluster with questionnaires and from interview from 7
businesses in retail business by using semi-structured question interview. The analysis was undertaken
by using logistic regression analysis. Factors affecting investment decisions after the commercial port
of Chiang Saen 2 are trade policy and Economic factors. Both factors are statistically significant.
In order to study difficulty level of investing in border trade at Chiang Saen by analysis 5
important aspects as this following: Business Startup, Building Permits, Commercial Registration,
Loan Obtaining and Tax Payment Process as well as bring point of view from each aspects to calculate
weighted arithmetic mean. The results show that Tax Payment Process has higher score than Business
Startup, Commercial Registration, Building Permits and Loan Obtaining. The above results agree
with investors point of view especially Tax Payment Process is distinctive point to operate business at
Chiang Saen because government offers long time frame for tax payment as well as process also very
convenient such as online tax payment. Moreover, the most obstacle aspects for startup business in
Chiang Saen are Loan obtaining from financial institution because government hardly support
investors and they also have to apply loan by themselves, the main issue that lead to reject loan from
financial institution is lack of loan collateral. Therefore some investors ignore to apply loan due to
there is no loan collateral and cost of loan interest is high if they compare to profit margin receive from
consumer goods business.