Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule · GTİP code · HS 3212.90
3212.90.00.00.19: Pigments in non-aqueous media; dyes for retail: Boyaların: diğerleri
Pigments in non-aqueous media; dyes for retail
✓ Can be used in a customs declaration Data: Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule, in force from 1 January 2026 · checked on 24 October 2026
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- 3212 Boyaların (emaye dahil) imalinde kullanılan, susuz bir ortamda dağılan, sıvı veya hamur şeklindeki pigmentler (metalik tozlar ve pullar dahil); ıstampacılığa mahsus varaklar; perakende satılacak şekil veya ambalajlarda bulunan boyalar ve diğer boyayıcı maddeler:
- 3212.90 Diğerleri:
- 3212.90.00.00.19 Diğerleri
What you pay
Importing into Türkiye
Rates for Türkiye are the applied duties of the 2026 Import Regime Decision, as consolidated by the Ministry of Trade (amendments to August 2026). The additional customs duty (İGV) and, for some farm goods, the additional financial liability (EMY) come on top. Footnotes can lower a rate for named countries or periods: see the line page.
Additional duties and import rules
Charges on top of the customs duty, and rules the goods must meet at the border.
No additional measures recorded for this origin.
Preferential rates by country
Same subheading in other tariffs
UK Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
EU 6.5% Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
USA 3.1% General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Canada Free General (MFN) 3 tariff lines 
Mexico Free General (MFN) 3 tariff lines 
Brazil 12.6% General (MFN) 2 tariff lines 
Argentina 12.6% General (MFN) 6 tariff lines 
Peru Free – 6% General (MFN) 2 tariff lines · average 3% 
New Zealand Free General (MFN) 5 tariff lines 
Japan 2.1% – 4.1% General (MFN) 2 tariff lines · average 3.1% 
Taiwan 5% – 6.5% General (MFN) 4 tariff lines · average 6.1% 
GCC 5% General (MFN) 5 tariff lines 
Switzerland Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Norway Free General (MFN) 3 tariff lines 
North Macedonia 5% General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Nigeria 10% General (MFN) 1 tariff line Türkiye lines: 3212.90
Binding rulings for similar goods
Decisions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CROSS) and HMRC (Advance Tariff Rulings) on goods classified here. A ruling binds only its holder, but shows how the authorities classify similar goods. The descriptions are the authorities’ own, in English.
- N306101 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of “POWERNICS 1025 F-1 BLACK” from Japan
- N304909 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of “WBC TP Paliogen Red L 4039” from Germany
- N303924 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of “Monarch 1300 Carbon Black” and “Monarch 1400 Carbon Black” from Japan
- N303081 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of “Cinquasia Magenta L 4540” and “Irgazin Rubine L 4025” from Japan
- 600011502 HMRC
Edible Drink Shimmer Designed for cakes/baking and also can be used in drinks to give colour and an unflavoured shimmering effect. 10ml Transparent PET Bottle with Silver Aluminium Cap which are then packaged within a small branded printed card box. Ingredients: E555 (potassium aluminium silicate)…
- 600011168 HMRC
Orange Food Colouring Powder Orange Food Colouring Powder to be added to water. Ingredients: Salt, Tartrazine, Allura Red, Carmoisine 500g
- 600011125 HMRC
Food colouring gel/liquid Used to give food colour, for mainly in food baking Ingredients: Glucose syrup, sugar, water, colour (curcumin), gelling agents (agar, xanthan gum), acidity regulator (citric acid), preservative (potassium sorbate) Packaged in to a plastic tube containing 19g
20 rulings in total for this code
Legal notes
Notes
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 3203 or 3204, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 3206), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 3207, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale of heading 3212);
(b) tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 2936 to 2939, 2941 or 3501 to 3504; or
(c) mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 2715).
2. Heading 3204 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
3. Headings 3203, 3204, 3205 and 3206 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 3206, colouring pigments of heading 2530 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 3212), or to other preparations of headings 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3212, 3213 or 3215.
4. Heading 3208 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 % of the weight of the solution.
5. The expression ‘colouring matter’ in this chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers.
6. The expression ‘stamping foils’ in heading 3212 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of:
(a) metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or
(b) metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.
In the Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule, 3212.90.00.00.19 is one of 3 lines under subheading 3212.90, pigments: other.
The statutory rate is 6.5%.
For the same subheading, the UK duty is free, the EU duty is 6.5%, the US duty is 3.1%, the Canada duty is free, the Mexico duty is free, the Brazil duty is 12.6%, the Argentina duty is 12.6%, the Peru duty is 0%–6%, the New Zealand duty is free, the Japan duty is 2.1%–4.1%, the Taiwan duty is 5%–6.5%, the GCC duty is 5%, the Switzerland duty is free, the Norway duty is free, the North Macedonia duty is 5% and the Nigeria duty is 10%.
Türkiye imported goods of subheading 3212.90 worth US$37m in 2024; the largest supplier was Germany.
Questions and answers
What is the Türkiye import duty for GTİP code 3212.90.00.00.19?
The statutory rate in the Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule is 6.5%. Preferential rates for goods from agreement countries, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.
Where does Türkiye import these goods from?
For subheading 3212.90 as a whole, the largest supplier in 2024 was Germany (US$8m), followed by Poland.