Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule · GTİP code · HS 4903.00
4903.00.00.90.00: Children's picture and colouring books: Çocuklar için resimli albüm veya kitaplar, resim yapmaya: diğerleri
Children's picture and colouring books
✓ 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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- 4903 Çocuklar için resimli albüm veya kitaplar, resim yapmaya veya boyamaya mahsus albümler :
- 4903.00.00.90.00 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
4903.00 Children's picture, drawing or colouring books
UK specific or compound duty Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
EU Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
USA Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Canada Free General (MFN) 2 tariff lines 
Mexico Free – 15% General (MFN) 2 tariff lines · average 7.5% 
Brazil 14.4% General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Argentina 16% General (MFN) 10 tariff lines 
Peru Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
New Zealand Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Japan Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Taiwan Free General (MFN) 2 tariff lines 
GCC Free General (MFN) 7 tariff lines 
Switzerland Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Norway Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
North Macedonia Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Nigeria Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line Türkiye lines: 4903.00
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.
- N364453 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of Aqua Doodle Books from China
- N355963 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of children’s soft books from China
- N353635 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of children’s books from China
- N353863 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of adult’s and children’s books from China
- 600016554 HMRC
A Colouring book from the National Trust Colouring Cards and Envelopes series. Consisting of 24 pre-designed cards and envelopes with black and white illustrations, intended for colouring in. There are also blank spaces on the cards and envelopes for messages, signatures, addresses etc. to be…
- 600015278 HMRC
The product is an activity pack for children. The product is packed into a reusable tin containing an embossed design with a plastic handle to carry the contents in. Size of the box 200mm x 165 mmx 65 mm. The tin has a colourful cardboard cover. Contents of tin - 2 Colouring and Activity books,…
- 600011960 HMRC
A Children's book for bath playtime. It has 4 leaves (3 spreads), all leaves with integral handle. The measurement is 195 x 150mm and has a portrait Print. The book has 2 flaps included as part of the book block and folded, 1 flap heat sealed into the gutter. Each flap is double sided with 3mm…
- 600011961 HMRC
A Fabric Book which measures 150 mm x 150 mm (square). It has 4 leaves including the cover. It is made of polyester fibre and Polyethylene Terephthalate. A crinkle section measures 64mm (w) x 25mm (h). It also includes a Teething Ring which has a circular shape and measures 4.5 x 3.5cm. It is made…
44 rulings in total for this code
Legal notes
Notes
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) photographic negatives or positives on transparent bases (Chapter 37);
(b) maps, plans or globes, in relief, whether or not printed (heading 9023);
(c) playing cards or other goods of Chapter 95; or
(d) original engravings, prints or lithographs (heading 9702), postage or revenue stamps, stamp-postmarks, first-day covers, postal stationery or the like of heading 9704, antiques of an age exceeding 100 years or other articles of Chapter 97.
2. For the purposes of Chapter 49, the term ‘printed’ also means reproduced by means of a duplicating machine, produced under the control of an automatic data-processing machine, embossed, photographed, photocopied, thermocopied or typewritten.
3. Newspapers, journals and periodicals which are bound otherwise than in paper, and sets of newspapers, journals or periodicals comprising more than one number under a single cover are to be classified in heading 4901, whether or not containing advertising material.
4. Heading 4901 also covers:
(a) a collection of printed reproductions of, for example, works of art or drawings, with a relative text, put up with numbered pages in a form suitable for binding into one or more volumes;
(b) a pictorial supplement accompanying, and subsidiary to, a bound volume; and
(c) printed parts of books or booklets, in the form of assembled or separate sheets or signatures, constituting the whole or a part of a complete work and designed for binding.
However, printed pictures or illustrations not bearing a text, whether in the form of signatures or separate sheets, fall in heading 4911.
5. Subject to note 3 to this chapter, heading 4901 does not cover publications which are essentially devoted to advertising (for example, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, yearbooks published by trade associations, tourist propaganda). Such publications are to be classified in heading 4911.
6. For the purposes of heading 4903, the expression ‘children's picture books’ means books for children in which the pictures form the principal interest and the text is subsidiary.
In the Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule, 4903.00.00.90.00 is one of 2 lines under subheading 4903.00, children's picture, drawing or colouring books.
The statutory rate is free.
For the same subheading, the EU duty is free, the US duty is free, the Canada duty is free, the Mexico duty is 0%–15%, the Brazil duty is 14.4%, the Argentina duty is 16%, the Peru duty is free, the New Zealand duty is free, the Japan duty is free, the Taiwan duty is free, the GCC duty is free, the Switzerland duty is free, the Norway duty is free, the North Macedonia duty is free and the Nigeria duty is free.
Türkiye imported goods of subheading 4903.00 worth US$6m in 2024; the largest supplier was China.
Questions and answers
What is the Türkiye import duty for GTİP code 4903.00.00.90.00?
The statutory rate in the Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule is free. Preferential rates for goods from agreement countries, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.
Where does Türkiye import these goods from?
For subheading 4903.00 as a whole, the largest supplier in 2024 was China (US$5m).