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Tebliğ 2026/15 is one of roughly three dozen numbered "İthalatta Gözetim Uygulanmasına İlişkin Tebliğ" notifications (2026/1 through at least 2026/37) 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, which describes the umbrella surveillance-regime component, and the sibling entries already filed for lithium batteries (2026/19), vehicle suspension springs (2026/6), air conditioning (2026/18), iron/steel staples (2026/8), air compressors (2026/9), vacuum storage bags (2026/3) and marble/stone (2026/4)). This entry files the motor-vehicle-safety-glass-specific notification separately because it is a distinct legal instrument with its own HS-line targeting and its own Official Gazette citation, and Global Trade Alert independently logs it as a discrete "certainly harmful" intervention.
The measure uses the same reference-price-triggered surveillance certificate design as the rest of the 2026 package: imports of windscreens/safety glass under GTİP 8708.22 priced at or above USD 6.5/kg (gross weight) clear normally; imports priced below that floor require a gözetim belgesi — issued electronically by the Import Directorate General and referenced at customs declaration — before release. Certificates require the importer to file company, ownership and cost-structure documentation via the Gümrükler Tek Pencere Sistemi and are valid for a limited period, consistent with the sibling notifications in this batch.
Severity 2 (quantitative basis — USD 6.5/kg reference floor disclosed): single HS line (8708.22), no duty imposed yet, targeting a commodity automotive-glazing component rather than a strategic material — broadly comparable in scope to the vehicle-suspension-spring sibling (2026/6) and materially narrower in strategic significance than the lithium-battery sibling (2026/19), which sits inside Türkiye's critical-minerals/battery-supply-chain policy push. Still a real, GTA-verified administrative trade barrier (Red-rated) aimed principally at underpriced Chinese-origin (and Belgian/Czech re-exported) automotive glass.
Chinese, Belgian and Czech-origin windscreen/safety-glass exporters to Türkiye face a new pre-clearance certificate step below the USD 6.5/kg reference-price floor, raising compliance cost on a commodity automotive component.
Decree 10790 and the other 2026/1-37 surveillance Tebliğs, this confirms Türkiye's 2026 import-regime overhaul applied the same reference-price surveillance template across dozens of unrelated HS lines simultaneously, from critical battery materials down to commodity auto-glass — 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; low strategic materiality here makes conversion less likely than for the battery or steel/aluminium lines already tracked in the register.
currently sit above or below the USD 6.5/kg floor — i.e., how binding is the measure in practice?
comparable strategic weight and warrant separate IPTM filing, versus being adequately captured by the Decree 10790 umbrella entry?