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Tebliğ 2026/4 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 (the umbrella surveillance-regime + additional-duty decree covering 4,344 product lines) and sibling notifications already filed in the register (2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-8-iron-steel-staples-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-19-lithium-battery-import-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-9-air-compressors-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-6-vehicle-suspension-springs-surveillance, 2026-01-30-turkiye-teblig-2026-3-vacuum-storage-bags-surveillance). This entry files the marble/travertine-specific notification separately because it is a distinct legal instrument with its own GTİP-line targeting and 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 marble and travertine (GTİP 6802.21) and other worked monumental/building stone (GTİP 6802.91.00.00.19) priced at a unit customs value of USD 700/tonne gross weight or above clear normally; imports priced below that threshold require a gözetim belgesi, applied for electronically via the Ministry's Customs Single Window System or e-Devlet portal, before the customs declaration is accepted. Certificates are valid six months, and the certificate's 23-digit reference number and issue date must appear in customs declaration box 44. The Tebliğ does not name a country in its text — GTA identifies China, Greece and Iran as the principally affected exporters given prevailing trade-flow patterns in low-priced dimension-stone imports, but the measure is de jure origin-neutral.
Severity 2, quant basis: the USD 700/tonne reference-price floor is explicit in the primary source, but the product (worked ornamental stone) is a narrow, non-strategic construction-material line with no critical-minerals or advanced-manufacturing dimension — materially narrower in scope and stakes than the lithium-battery or steel/aluminium siblings in the same package.
exports** — exporters of low-priced marble, travertine and worked building stone to Türkiye face a new pre-clearance certificate requirement below the USD 700/tonne reference floor, raising compliance cost and customs-clearance lead time on a commodity-grade natural-stone trade.
Decree 10790 and the vehicle-suspension-spring, lithium-battery, iron/steel-staple, air-compressor and vacuum-storage-bag Tebliğs, this confirms Türkiye's 2026 import-regime overhaul applied the same reference-price surveillance template across dozens of unrelated GTİP lines simultaneously — a blanket anti-circumvention exercise rather than a targeted industrial-policy intervention aimed at any single sector.
world's largest marble/travertine producers and exporters (notably from Afyonkarahisar and Denizli); a reference-price floor on low-value imports plausibly also shields domestic quarrying and processing firms from underpriced competition, alongside the stated anti-under-invoicing rationale.
historically converts a share of new surveillance lines into formal safeguard or anti-dumping measures within 18-24 months; the narrow, non-strategic scope here makes conversion less likely than for the battery or steel/aluminium lines already tracked in the register.
carry comparable strategic weight and warrant separate IPTM filing, versus being adequately captured by the Decree 10790 umbrella entry?
pricing to Türkiye sit above or below the USD 700/tonne floor — i.e., how binding is the measure in practice?