Dear Customer (s )

New customs regulations  such as - Customs Clearance Capabilities and limits are changed as follows in TURKEY

For Import Shipments

Import shipments are being evaluated in 4 categories;

1-Documents,
2- Non Documents between value of 0-75 EUR and lower than 30 Kgs,
3- Non Documents between value of 75-1500 EUR and lower than 30 Kgs,
4- Non Documents with a value over 1500 EUR and/or shipments declared as commercial shipments even if they have value under 1500EUR / 30Kgs.  

TNT Turkey has the authority to make clearance for the categories 1, 2 and 3 if only they are non commercial shipments (samples, promotion materials, gifts,....etc)

We do not use our permission yet to give formal declaration for category 3.  For this reason the clearance can only be done by consignee or by their own broker.

Shipments evaluated under category 4 will be held in Customs for final clearance.  The clearance can only be done by consignee or by their own broker.  We provide and deliver clearance paperwork to the consignee or their broker for formal clearance.  

According to the new circular which was published by Customs Authorities on 19th of Apr 2011; some materials are subjected to formal clearance regardless of its category.  The mentioned restricted materials are foods & beverages, drugs, food contribution materials, all kind of cosmetics and mobile phones.  These kind of materials are out of our clearance authorization limits and will be held by customs for formal clearance.  Weight, value and reasons for sending are not considered by customs, all of them will be held in customs automatically.  

For export shipments

There are four types of declaration for export shipments from Turkey;

1- Simplified export declaration (used only for global express shipments G15N and G48F with values lower than 7500EUR / 150 Kgs.)
2- Formal export declarations for non commercial (used for non commercial shipments over 7500EUR / 150 Kgs.  or moved by any commercial airways (WEF) or Economy Express shipments via road (48N).
3- Formal export declarations for commercial shipments (used for all service types).  
4- Temporary export declaration (will be used if the goods will return to Turkey)

Due to new customs regulations, we as TNT can do export clearance only for shipments under category 1.  For the rest of categories 2, 3 and 4 should be done formal clearance by an external broker other than TNT.  

If the goods are non commercial and samples or model .etc., it can be declared by TNT even it is over 7500EUR / 150 Kgs.