Ministry of Trade (Türkiye)
Also called: Ticaret Bakanlığı · T.C. Ticaret Bakanlığı
The Turkish ministry responsible for foreign trade policy and customs administration, including customs offices, tariff policy, trade remedies, import surveillance, product safety and export support. Its customs directorates operate BİLGE and issue binding tariff and origin decisions.
In practice
Most Turkish customs, trade defence and product safety rules are published or applied by this ministry, so its announcements and the Official Gazette must be tracked.
Applies to: 
Türkiye
Related terms
- Turkish Customs Law
- The basic customs law of Türkiye, Law No. 4458 of 1999, largely aligned with EU customs legislation in line with the customs union. It is implemented…
- BİLGE
- The electronic customs declaration system of Türkiye, through which declarations, manifests and many customs transactions are submitted and…
- TAREKS
- Türkiye's electronic system for risk-based technical checks on imported and exported products subject to product safety and conformity rules.…
- Import Regime Decree
- The Turkish presidential decree that sets the general rules of the import regime and, in its annexes, the customs duties and additional customs…
- Import surveillance (gözetim)
- A system in which imports of certain products are monitored, sometimes with a requirement to obtain a document before import. In Türkiye,…