Baby & Kid Product Exports / September’17

As we know, Council of Ministers approved the special
passport also referred to as green passport act may
be provided to certain exporters.
When will the act be operational?
With an aim to facilitate their business contacts and visits
to foreign countries, the Council of Ministers released a
declaration that exporters contributing to the economy of
our country can be awarded by getting Green Passport
if they comply certain conditions. The act was published
in the Official Gazette dated 23 March 2017 and enacted
into force. According to this, depending on the amount of
exports they made in the last three calendar years, one to
five managers of the exporting companies determined by
the Ministry of Economy have been given the right to be
issued green passports for two years.
Since then, about five thousand people of the 4,105 applicant
companies were given green passport.
Are there any differences in terms of exports and
customs formalities among the countries that Turkish
exporters are active?
I can say that in those countries that their customs were
modernized and having global standards cause minimal
problems in this regard. The agreement to facilitate trade
that was recently signed may be a good motive for further
developments. Besides, the customs union agreement
signed in 1995 between EU and free trade agreement
between several countries are helpful all to our export
activities.
What kinds of systems are effective in controlling
e-trade operations?
With its 46.2 million internet users, our country has a higher
potential for e-trade than most other countries. But, due to
the some security risks, share of on-line retail trade in Turkey
is about 3.5 %, less than the global average of 8.5 %.
When the decree for security stamp in electronic trade that
was issued in Official Gazette on 06.06.2017 started to be
used the service and security standards will be improved
more.
With the additional measures, data security will be improved,
service qualities will be increased, and a customer
relations and complaints system will be operational to improve
customer services provided in e-trade operations.
Recently enacted incentives and supports for companies
who emphasize on domestic productions make national
producers and exporters happy. Are there other
activities in this regard? Do you have new projects?
Production and trade cannot be separated from each other.
We aim to connect them with facilitate activities of both
producers and traders. Recently, we are developing some
projects for agricultural products, to facilitate the operations
in supply chains by establishing specialized trade exchanges,
licensed warehouses, etc. With additional incentives
number of warehouses and their capacities have been
expanded and reach to an optimum level by the year 2020.
With this system, our country will be a powerful player in
agricultural goods trade in world markets.
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