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Tebliğ 2026/20 is one of the numbered "İthalatta Gözetim Uygulanmasına İlişkin Tebliğ" notifications the Ministry of Trade published in the same 4th-mükerrer gazette issue (33124) as part of the annual 2026 import-regime overhaul, alongside sibling surveillance tebliğs already in this register (2026/1 magnesium plates, 2026/7 razors/blades, 2026/19 lithium batteries, and others). This entry files the load-cells/measuring-instruments notification separately because it targets a distinct HS scope with its own reference-price mechanics.
The measure sets no tariff or outright ban. Instead it uses a reference-price-triggered surveillance certificate: imports of load cells (GTİP 9031.80.80.90.11) priced at or above USD 20,000/tonne, and other measuring/checking instruments (GTİP 9031.80.80.90.19) at or above USD 7,000/tonne, clear normally; imports below those floors require a gözetim belgesi, whose issuance requires the importer to file company, ownership and cost-structure data via the Gümrükler Tek Pencere Sistemi. This creates administrative friction and a data trail specifically for under-priced imports without Türkiye needing to open a formal anti-dumping investigation. GTA classifies this as a "Red" (harmful) import-licensing intervention, with affected trading partners named as China, Austria and Canada.
Severity 2 (quantitative basis — two disclosed reference-price floors: USD 20,000/tonne for load cells, USD 7,000/tonne for other measuring/checking instruments): narrow two-line HS scope, no duty imposed yet, industrial instrumentation rather than a strategic-materials chokepoint, consistent with the qualitative severity assigned to sibling Tebliğ 2026-series surveillance filings in this register.
instrumentation** — load cells and measuring/control devices join the growing list of narrowly-scoped HS lines (batteries, fire extinguishers, vehicle safety glass, air compressors, etc.) brought under reference- price surveillance in the same gazette issue, reinforcing the pattern that Türkiye is running a broad, low-profile anti-circumvention sweep across many product categories simultaneously rather than isolated actions.
floor face a 6-month-renewable certificate process requiring detailed cost/ownership disclosure, building a data-collection mechanism the Ministry can later use to justify a formal safeguard or AD case.
anti-dumping or safeguard investigation on load cells/measuring instruments within the next 12-18 months, consistent with the surveillance-to-AD conversion pattern seen elsewhere in Türkiye's 2026 import regime?
value currently falls below the USD 20,000/7,000 per-tonne reference floors (i.e., how binding is the measure in practice)?