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Tebliğ 2026/11 is one of roughly three dozen numbered "İthalatta Gözetim Uygulanmasına İlişkin Tebliğ" notifications (2026/1 through at least 2026/36) that the Ministry of Trade published in the same 4th-mükerrer gazette issue as part of the annual 2026 import-regime overhaul — see 2026-01-01-turkey-decree-10790-import-regime-2026 (the umbrella surveillance-regime + additional-duty decree covering 4,344 product lines) and the sibling notifications 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-9-air-compressors-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-8-iron-steel-staples-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-6-vehicle-suspension-springs-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-4-marble-stone-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-3-vacuum-storage-bags-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-18-air-conditioning-import-surveillance and 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-19-lithium-battery-import-surveillance. This entry files the fire-extinguisher-specific notification separately because it is a distinct legal instrument with its own Official Gazette citation, and Global Trade Alert independently logs it as a discrete "certainly harmful" intervention.
The measure sets no tariff and no outright ban. Instead it uses the same reference-price-triggered surveillance certificate design as the rest of the 2026 package: imports of fire extinguishers priced at or below a Ministry-set unit customs value floor require a gözetim belgesi, applied for electronically via the Ministry's single-window system or e-Devlet, before the customs declaration is accepted; imports above the floor clear normally. GTA's public state-act record identifies China, France and Germany among the affected exporting jurisdictions but does not disclose the underlying GTİP line or the USD/unit reference-price threshold (both sit behind GTA's paywall); the primary Resmi Gazete PDF could not be text-extracted in this environment (image/CID font encoding), consistent with the sibling notifications in this package.
Severity 1, qual basis: fire extinguishers are a narrow, low-value safety/consumer-durable good with no strategic-material or industrial-capacity dimension — comparable in scope and stakes to the vacuum-storage-bag and marble-stone siblings, and materially lower-stakes than the air-conditioning, vehicle-spring, steel-staple or lithium-battery notifications in the same package.
exporters (notably China, France and Germany per GTA) below the (undisclosed) reference price face a new pre-clearance certificate requirement, raising compliance cost on a narrow consumer/industrial safety-equipment category.
Decree 10790 and the air-compressor/staples/vehicle-spring/marble/ vacuum-bag/air-conditioning/lithium-battery Tebliğs, this confirms Türkiye's 2026 import-regime overhaul applied the same reference-price surveillance template across dozens of unrelated GTİP lines simultaneously, from critical battery materials down to fire extinguishers — a blanket anti-circumvention exercise rather than a targeted industrial-policy intervention.
historically converts a share of new surveillance lines into formal safeguard or anti-dumping measures within 18-24 months; the narrow, low-strategic-value scope here makes conversion unlikely relative to the battery or steel/aluminium lines already tracked in the register.
fire extinguishers under Tebliğ 2026/11 — the primary PDF could not be text-extracted in this environment and GTA's full detail is paywalled.
practice, or whether (as with the air-compressor sibling) GTA's public country list is alphabetical rather than a ranked exposure list.