Turkey’s Anti-Dumping Practices
Ministry of Economy (DG Imports) is Turkey’s designated investigation body of all trade defense instruments and is located in Ankara. DG Imports defines its essential role/mission/duty as to defend domestic producers’ interests against imports in its official website. WTO rules and national legislation determines the legal framework of Turkish Trade Defense Investigations. There are two separate bodies, namely the Board of Evaluation of Unfair Competition in Importation (“the Board”) and the Department of Dumping and Subsidy Investigation (“the Department”) in Turkey. The Board is an independent authority which consists of 8 members composed of 7 different public institutions’ representatives and non-profit organizations. The Board is authorized to initiate an investigation, accepting offers of price undertakings, or imposing anti-dumping duties. In practice, however, the Department is the major determinant of anti-dumping policies and investigations.
Turkey’s Anti-Dumping Statistics
Turkey adopted its national legislation as “Code on Prevention of Unfair Competition in Importation” in 1989. The Code consists anti-dumping measures, countervailing duties and anti-circumvention measures (with later amendments in 1999). After the foundation of the Department of Dumping and Subsidy Investigation in 1990, Turkey has widely used anti-dumping measures. Until the end of 2015, the Department initiated 224 investigations. 136 of all these investigations finalized by anti-dumping measures and 72% of the measures are enforced to the countries in Far East and Southeast Asia. According to WTO statistics, in 1995-2015 period, Turkey initiated 192 anti-dumping investigations which positioned her 10th among all WTO members following India, United States, European Union, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and China.
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