All
products offered to the market, including imported products, must not pose a
threat to human health, animal and plant health, environmental protection, life
and property safety. There
are some standards and technical regulations that must be complied with for the
products to be qualified as safe and high quality. Technical regulations are
legal texts that specify one or more of the features of products such as processing
and production methods, shape, design, function, content, size, packaging and
labeling, and contain criteria that must be complied with and applied. Conformity assessment processes are
carried out to certify that the products are produced in accordance with these
criteria. Products that do not comply with the technical regulations are not
allowed to be placed on the market and imported.
Technical
barriers arise in foreign trade due to differences between countries' technical
regulations and negatively affect the free flow of world trade.
In
order to prevent the different technical regulations of the countries from
being an obstacle, the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement has been
signed within the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO), of
which our country is also a member.
In
addition, the Customs Union was established between our country and the European
Union (EU) in order to eliminate the obstacles to the free movement of
goods. The definition of the Customs Union, as stated on the website of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, is that the goods of the party countries
can circulate freely within a single customs area, exempt from all kinds of
tariffs and equivalent taxes, and the parties apply the same tariff rates and
trade policy for imports from third countries.
The
CE mark shows that the products comply with the relevant technical
regulations and have passed all the necessary conformity assessment processes.
It is not possible to export products that do not carry this mark to EU member
countries.
In
Turkey, a basic platform has been established that exporters will benefit from
in the field of technical barriers in trade. On the Site of Technical
Barriers to Trade, it is possible to
obtain information about the technical regulations of the country you want to
export to and to request additional information needed from the Ministry.
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