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countries ranked first with a share of 6.70 billion dollars in<br />

exports and 38.41 percent among the country groups to<br />

which the most of chemical industry exports were made.<br />

EU countries were followed by Near and Middle East Asian<br />

countries with 3.13 billion dollars of export and a share<br />

of 17.97%. Other European countries came in third with<br />

3.23 billion dollars in exports and a share of 13.04%, North<br />

African countries came in fourth with 1.71 billion dollars in<br />

exports and a share of 9.85%, and other Asian countries<br />

came in fifth with 1.38 billion dollars in exports and a share<br />

of 7.91%.<br />

We have 12 sub-sectors in the chemical industry. Among<br />

the five sub-sectors to which we made the most exports<br />

in 2018, plastics and plastic products was in the first place<br />

with exports of 5 billion 886 million dollars. Mineral fuels,<br />

mineral oils and products came in second with exports<br />

of 3 billion 292 million dollars, inorganic chemicals came<br />

in third with exports of 1 billion 808 million dollars, rubber,<br />

rubber goods came in fourth with exports of 1 billion 363<br />

million dollars, and cosmetics and soap sub-sector came<br />

in fifth with exports of 1 billion 146 million dollars.<br />

Our exports continue to increase but in today’s environment<br />

when the global competition is getting fiercer every<br />

passing day, the value of high value-added production<br />

and unit kilogram value of exports should also be increased.<br />

This depends significantly on the strength of R&D<br />

and innovation. Accounting for about 33% of exports in<br />

the chemical industry, the plastics and plastic products<br />

sub-sector is a foreign-dependent sector on raw materials<br />

at 90%. The STAR Refinery, which was opened this year<br />

to operate in the field of petrochemistry, will support our<br />

industry in terms of chemical exports, but it is not enough.<br />

We need at least 4-5 more facilities operating in the field<br />

of petrochemistry. Moreover, construction of a plant with<br />

a capacity of 450,000 tons of polypropylene production<br />

per year will start in the Ceyhan petrochemical industry<br />

zone in <strong>2019</strong>. As these and similar high-volume facilities<br />

start to operate, our dependency on imports will decrease<br />

in the sub-sectors, which will in turn contribute positively<br />

to our exports.<br />

Also, technical obstacles for the introduction of drugs<br />

produced in Turkey to global markets have been lifted<br />

to a large extent thanks to the membership of Turkish<br />

Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (TİTCK) with the<br />

Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S),<br />

which actually started on January 1, 2018, in the pharmaceutical<br />

industry, one of the fields offering the highest<br />

value-added products in the chemical industry. This is an<br />

important development for the increase of exports in the<br />

pharmaceutical industry. We, as İKMİB, follow these important<br />

developments related to our sectors and besides<br />

our efforts to inform our companies about such developments,<br />

we continue to carry out comprehensive activities<br />

as the practitioner of our Union while supporting all kinds<br />

of projects for increasing the exports that are made by<br />

the pharmaceutical and medical sectors to the world.<br />

In addition, we need to give importance to promotion<br />

and marketing activities for sustainable export growth.<br />

We, as İKMİB, support the activities that will increase the<br />

exports of our companies. In this context, we organized<br />

a total of 18 national and international trade and hosted<br />

buyer events, 10 exhibitions with domestic participation,<br />

6 projects for development of sectoral international<br />

competition (UR-GE), 6 sector trainings, 5 seminars and<br />

4 workshops in 2018. We will continue to support our<br />

exporters with might and main by means of 19 exhibitions<br />

with domestic participation, 19 sectoral trade<br />

delegation and 8 hosted buyer events that we plan to<br />

organize in <strong>2019</strong>.<br />

In 2018, we concluded the application procedures of<br />

196 member companies that met the conditions for<br />

obtaining green passports. In addition to the supports<br />

provided by TİM and Ministry of Trade, we offered 20%<br />

support for the member companies to benefit from<br />

e-commerce websites, namely Alibaba, Turkish Exporters,<br />

Kompass and Chemorbis. 1380 members benefited<br />

from this support. We cooperated with the NGOs, and<br />

in <strong>2019</strong> we will perform activities to increase the export<br />

of our sectors more extensively. We are pleased that<br />

our government has supported the promises we made<br />

during the election process with the idea that they are<br />

important for our sector. As İKMİB, we are working hard<br />

to improve the sector and exports. In order to increase<br />

our exports and reach the 2023 targets, we need to<br />

guide our SMEs to export more. In this regard, in <strong>2019</strong> we<br />

will focus on expansion of e-commerce network, facilitating<br />

the access of exporters to financing, decreasing the<br />

limit for green passport to 500 thousand dollars in the first<br />

stage, creating container lines, digital transformation,<br />

indigenization in chemical industry, ensuring more fair<br />

share and efficient use of the funds of Turkey Promotion<br />

Group (TTG), and expansion of the network of Turkish<br />

Trade Centers. With the TTG projects, we aim to promote<br />

our country and our exports more effectively.<br />

In particular, e-commerce is among the second 100-day<br />

targets of the Ministry of Trade as the “electronic export<br />

platform”. We will work closely with our government in<br />

this field in order to keep up with the digital transformation<br />

in the global trade, make the processes faster and<br />

contribute to our country’s exports to reach the targets<br />

of 2023. In order to achieve the target export volume<br />

in <strong>2019</strong>, we convey our requests to and we hold talks<br />

with the Ministry of Trade to improve the green passport<br />

limit and duration, increase the participation rates of<br />

exhibitors and support our industrialist in establishing a<br />

petrochemical plant. Our task is to work harder to meet<br />

our national target of 200 billion dollar as announced by<br />

the President. Accordingly, we will work hard to exceed<br />

the $20 billion level by increasing our sector exports by<br />

15 percent in <strong>2019</strong>.<br />

7<br />

<strong>Toyuncak</strong> Exports Turkey <strong>2019</strong>

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