1. Introduction Steel imports from the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) take a vast majority of the Turkish market staring from 2015. Due to its relatively low prices, dumping investigations against the PRC have been initiated in various jurisdictions around the world, including USA, EU, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, Brazil, Taiwan and Turkey. Below we…
1. Introduction For the past few years, Turkey has tended to use various trade remedy tools more frequently, thus the number of investigations increases in depth and breadth with the aim of supporting domestic industry through its protectionist approach. Whilst ranked seventh among 43 WTO members as user of anti-dumping measures between 1995 and 2014,…
1. Introduction The European Commission (“Commission”), being quiet active between the last week of June and first week of July 2017, initiated trade remedy investigations (i.e. anti-dumping and expiry review) against various countries, including Turkey. In particular, the Commission launched an anti-dumping investigation concerning Turkey’s exports to the EU and a trade barrier examination concerning…
1. Introduction The Turkish Ministry of Economy (“Ministry”) frequently intervenes in cases where imports take place at the expense of domestic industry. This focus on foreign firms exporting to Turkey often leads the Ministry to adopt trade barriers, such as the so-called anti-dumping measures or safeguard measures. We thus have chosen to highlight communiqués and…
1. Introduction The recent developments in the case law have led the trade remedy law practitioners to bring the Turkish Ministry of Economy’s (“Ministry”) approach towards the implementation of the “lesser duty rule” to their agenda. There are deep concerns and raising voices of the interested stakeholders from both sides (domestic industry and foreign traders)…
On 17 August 2017, the Council of Ministers enacted the Additional Decision to Import Regime Decision No. 10561 and the Additional Decision to Import Regime Decision No. 10580 (together referred to as “Decisions“). The Decisions set forth additional customs duties that shall be taken in respect to the imports of the goods falling under the…
The Ministry of Economy of Turkey (Ministry) lifted the customs supervision charges on imported chairs which were in place since 10 January 2007. Customs supervision charges are one of the safeguard measures Turkey is entitled to impose on imported products in order to protect the national industry/producer. Customs supervision charges allow the Ministry to levy…
Upon the complaint submitted by the largest national producer of toothbrushes, the Turkish Ministry of Economy examined the import volume of such product and determined that the product subject to investigation is being dumped on the Turkish market. On 22.04.2017 the Turkish Ministry of the Economy (“Ministry”) launched an investigation against the imported toothbrushes (classified…