US Treasury places Thailand on its currency watch list alongside major trading partners

2026-01-30 - 08:26

WASHINGTON — The United States has added Thailand to its currency “Monitoring List,” citing concerns that the country meets two of the Treasury Department’s key criteria used to assess potential foreign exchange intervention. In its January 2026 report, Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States, released on 29 January local time, the US Treasury said Thailand qualified for the watch list due to a large global current account surplus and a significant bilateral trade surplus with the United States. The move places Thailand alongside China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland. All other countries on the list have been under monitoring since June 2025. Thailand was previously on the list in