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263Thai society The full legal name for the legislative branch is the National Assembly The House of Representatives which is known as the lower house of parliament under the new constitution will consist of 400 members of parliament directly elected from single member districts and 100 members selected from party lists with selection determined by the percentage of votes each of the major parties received in the elections The Judicial branch of the government consists of all courts of Thailand The courts are independent bodies intended to serve as a check and balance on both Executive and Legislative branches of government In 2015 total bilateral trade between the EU and Thai amounted to 32 9 billion The EU is Thai s third trade partner after China and Japan Thai exported goods are worth 19 6 billion to the EU in 2015 Key exports from Thai are machinery and electronics and transport equipment miscellaneous manufactured articles as well as food products Thai and the EU have negotiated and finalised in November 2013 Around the 10th century AD people from present day in China migrated southeast into the northern areas of the Indochinese Peninsula The Thai people who today inhabit India Laos Vietnam southern China Myanmar and Thai are believed to have descended from these migrants It is important to note that these migrants from southern China were not the first people to inhabit the region of present day Thai Siamese Thai is the lone official language of Thai spoken by over eighty percent of the country s sixty million people The written form of Thai language was introduced in 1283 by the third king in the Sukhothai period a man named Ramkhamhaeng of the Thai Thai is used in all capacities in Thailand including education government and the media Many dialects of Thai language are spoken throughout the country Thai language is the official language of the schools government and business affairs