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Tebliğ 2025/9 follows the same template as Türkiye's other 2025/2026 "İthalatta Gözetim Uygulanmasına İlişkin Tebliğ" reference-price surveillance notices (see e.g. 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-19-lithium-battery-import-surveillance): rather than imposing a duty or quota, the Ministry sets a per-HS-line CIF unit-value floor. Declarations priced at or above the floor clear normally; declarations priced below it trigger a mandatory surveillance certificate requiring the importer to submit cost, ownership and transaction data through the Ministry's Import Directorate General before customs will register the entry. This is a classic Turkish anti-circumvention/anti-underinvoicing tool used ahead of, or instead of, a formal trade-remedy investigation.
The measure's 15-line coverage spans essentially the full commercial pneumatic-tyre product range — passenger/tourism, truck and bus (both radial sub-types), motorcycle, bicycle and agricultural/forestry tyres, plus bicycle and motorcycle inner tubes — with thresholds set narrowly by sub-category (USD 3-6/kg), indicating the Ministry calibrated floors per product tier rather than applying a blanket value. GTA's affected-country list (China, Czechia, France) reflects the leading sources of tyre imports likely to fall below the reference floors, not an explicit country carve-out in the text — the surveillance applies erga omnes by declared value, consistent with WTO-compatible surveillance instruments.
Severity 2 (quant basis: 15 GTİP lines, USD 3-6/kg reference floors) — no duty is imposed and the measure is administrative rather than prohibitive, but it creates real compliance friction for underpriced tyre imports across nearly the entire product category, one month before Türkiye's broader FY2026 import-regime overhaul (Decree 10790) took effect.
overhaul** — this September 2025 tebliğ predates and likely informed the much larger January 2026 surveillance package (Decree 10790 / the 36-notification 2026/1-36 series), suggesting the Ministry uses single-product pilot notices to test reference-price mechanics before folding them into the annual regime reset.
sits alongside the EU's own antidumping case on Chinese passenger tyres (2025-05-21-eu-antidumping-passenger-tyres-china), reinforcing a pattern of underpriced-Chinese-tyre scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions in 2025.
observed pattern for this instrument type, surveillance lines that stay persistently binding have historically preceded formal antidumping or safeguard petitions from domestic producers.
represented via the Lastik Sanayicileri Derneği) file a formal antidumping or safeguard petition on any of these 15 lines within the next 12-18 months?
value currently fall below the per-line reference floors (i.e., how binding is the measure in practice)?
overhaul (Decree 10790 series), and if so does the reference-price floor change?