Türkiye restricts exports of 1,019 products across 54 product groups to Israel

Severity basis

Quant: 1,019 tariff lines across 54 product groups were restricted — a product-line count disclosed by the Ministry of Trade's own statement, covering a meaningful cross-section of Türkiye's industrial export base to Israel (cement, marble, sulphur, aluminium wire, ceramics, fertilisers). Severity is set at 4 for the breadth of the product list and G20-economy issuer, one notch below the full bilateral trade halt that replaced it on 2 May 2024.

Mechanism

The Ministry of Trade announced the restriction directly, without routing through a Resmi Gazete notice citable by number; Turkish customs offices were instructed to stop registering exports of the listed product groups to Israel from 9 April 2024. Ankara linked the decision explicitly to Israel's rejection of a Turkish request to conduct aid airdrops into Gaza and to the absence of a ceasefire. The restriction was a partial, escalatory step that Türkiye widened on 2 May 2024 into a complete halt of exports, imports and transit trade with Israel — filed separately if not already in the register.

Downstream implications

• Israeli industrial buyers of Turkish cement, marble, sulphur and

fertiliser inputs lost that supply channel overnight, forcing substitution from other Mediterranean or domestic sources.

• The measure is the first concrete trade-restriction step in what became a

full Turkish-Israeli trade embargo by May 2024 (see 2025-08-21-turkiye-maritime-restrictions-israel for the later maritime enforcement layer).

Open questions

• Whether a Resmi Gazete circular formalising the 9 April product list was

ever published; none was located in this filing pass.

• Whether the register already carries the 2 May 2024 full trade-halt

action as a separate filing — if so, this action's responds_to should be updated to reference it.