The Presidential Decision on the subject was published in the Official Gazette.
With the decision, the Ministry of Commerce made a regulation to reduce input costs in mask production, taking into account the importance of using personal masks in the fight against the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic that is effective worldwide.
Accordingly, the additional customs duty on “melt blown” fabrics used as input in mask production was reduced from 20 percent to zero percent until October 1.
With the Presidential Decree additional to the Import Regime Decision published in the Official Gazette, customs duties applied to raw materials and intermediate products that are not produced in Turkey and the European Union (EU) in order to reduce the input costs of industrialists, support competitiveness and reduce final product prices will be transferred to the EU. dropped simultaneously.
In this context, it was decided to reduce the customs duties of 125 specially defined products that are not produced in Turkey as of tomorrow (July 1).
