Ayutthaya and Dutch Trade

Name: Ayutthaya and Dutch Trade
Start: 1640
End: 1649

Type Event Region Southeast Asia Time 1640–1649

In the 1640s, trade between Siam's Ayutthaya kingdom and the Dutch East India Company deepened, with the Dutch maintaining a factory in the capital a…

Timeline

1640–1649Ayutthaya · Central ThailandThe Dutch East India Company maintained a permanent factory at Ayutthaya, participating in the capital's international trade alongside the Siamese court and Chinese and Japanese merchants.
1640–1649Songkhla · Southern ThailandThe Dutch purchased Siamese tin and deer hides through southern ports such as Songkhla and shipped them to Batavia, Taiwan, and Nagasaki in Japan, forming a transoceanic commodity circulation chain.
1640–1649Chao Phraya River basin · ThailandAyutthaya's geographic position linked the Indian Ocean and South China Sea trading zones, and its interactions with the Dutch, Japan, and Southeast Asian ports consolidated its status as a regional commercial center.

Sources

The Rise of Ayutthaya: History and Myth in the Making of a Nation — Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit (2017)
The Dutch East India Company and the Rise of Intra-Asian Commerce — Leonard Blussé