The overhaul, affirmed to Reuters by a U.S. official in Washington and a Bangkok-based authority from a worldwide association with direct learning of the rankings, would stamp an uncommon support for U.S.- Thai relations. Ties between the nations have level lined subsequent to the Thai military seized power in a 2014 upset that Washington firmly denounced.
It likewise comes as President Barack Obama attempts to produce a unified front among faltering Southeast Asian nations against China's quest for its regional cases in the South China Sea.
Bangkok has dissented freely to Washington that it ought to be expelled from the least positioning on the State Department's yearly Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which is expected to be discharged on Thursday.
The report is required to refer to changes in Thailand's endeavors to battle human trafficking, particularly in its imperative multibillion-dollar fish industry, the U.S. official said.
The redesign would put Thailand on a purported "Level 2 Watch List" and expel it from the rating for nations with the most exceedingly awful human-trafficking records, known as Tier 3.
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"The worldwide group will see that what the head administrator told the universal group he would do, he did," Sansern told Reuters.
Thai Defense Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said the move up to Tier 2 Watch List did not mean Thailand will quit handling trafficking issues.
"Despite the fact that we will be moved to Tier 2 we have to continue taking care of this issue," said Prawit.
The report sorts out nations into levels in view of trafficking records: Tier 1 for countries that meet least U.S. principles; Tier 2 for those trying noteworthy endeavors to meet those benchmarks; Tier 2 "Watch List" for those that merit extraordinary investigation; and Tier 3 for nations that are not trying critical endeavors.
Thailand was downsized to the most reduced positioning in June 2014 weeks after the military seized power.
Thai authorities were enraged a year ago when Malaysia was updated from Tier 3 yet Thailand was not, and even human rights advocates concurred that Bangkok had attempted to control human trafficking than Kuala Lumpur had.
In the current year's report, the State Department has selected to keep Malaysia at the higher positioning it got a year ago, as indicated by the U.S. official.
State Department representative John Kirby declined to remark on the level rankings: "We won't remark on the substance of the current year's report until after the report is discharged," he said.
The junta has more than once promised to get serious about human trafficking, especially in its multi-billion-dollar fish industry.
Thailand is the world's third-biggest fish exporter, and a great part of the work the angling business utilizes originates from neighboring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
Thailand as of late improved its hostile to trafficking laws and acquainted a framework with track angling vessels, part of what it called "far reaching and irreversible" measures to tidy up its production network and control illicit, unregulated and unreported angling.
Yet, rights bunches say a huge number of transient specialists stay defenseless against misuse in the angling area and other Thai commercial enterprises. Examinations by news associations and rights bunches have uncovered broad trafficking and mishandle, starting fears of a buyer reaction in the West against Thai-sourced fish.
The Obama organization has been unsettled by China's warming ties with the Thai junta, which has tried to offset the cooling of its customarily solid U.S. relationship, U.S. authorities say.
A Reuters examination distributed last August found that senior ambassadors more than once overruled the State Department's hostile to trafficking unit and expanded the evaluations of 14 deliberately vital nations, including Malaysia. The State Department denied any political contemplations however U.S. administrators brought up issues about the report's validity and called for changes.
The TIP report matters to Thailand's officers not just in light of the fact that the U.S. evaluation could influence a key industry. The junta, generally censured at home and attempting to kick-begin a slow economy, likewise is quick to support its record for handling issues that past, non military personnel governments did minimal about.
(Extra reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat in BANGKOK and Patricia Zengerle in WASHINGTON; Writing by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Stuart Grudgings and Simon Cameron-Moore)
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