Customs union
Also called: gümrük birliği
An arrangement in which members remove duties between themselves and apply a common external tariff to the rest of the world. Goods in free circulation in one member can therefore move to another without origin rules. The EU is a customs union, and Türkiye forms a customs union with it for industrial goods.
In practice
In a customs union the decisive question is customs status, not origin, which is why goods are moved under documents such as A.TR rather than origin proofs.
EU
TürkiyeRelated terms
- EU–Türkiye customs union
- The customs union between the EU and Türkiye, in force since 31 December 1995 under Association Council Decision 1/95. It covers industrial goods and…
- Free trade agreement
- An agreement between two or more countries removing duties on most trade between them, while each keeps its own external tariff. Benefits are limited…
- Common Customs Tariff
- The single external tariff applied by all EU member states to goods from outside the Union, based on the Combined Nomenclature and the conventional…
- Release for free circulation
- The procedure that gives non-Union goods the customs status of Union goods. It involves collecting import duty, applying commercial policy measures…