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The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which facilitates the movement of goods, services, investments, capital and skills, not only increase trade and investment among member countries, but also promote and expand regional production sharing and network. Companies that look for appropriate places to locate their affiliates can take advantage of this economic integration by cross-border production sharing. Many industries in Thailand can also take an opportunity of fragmenting production processes to other countries, especially to CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) since there are several factors contributing these countries to be potential destinations for international production fragmentation. The aim of this paper is to find suitable destination country among CLMV for the production fragmentation of Thai electronics industry. Fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making methodology based on fuzzy TOPSIS (fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution) approach is applied in the selection of the destination country. By considering eighteen criteria including both quantitative and qualitative aspects, the result shows that Vietnam is the optimal destination country for fragmenting production of Thai electronics industry internationally.