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This report outlines specific requirements for food and agricultural products imports to Turkey.

Turkey has a modern and developed food processing industry which represents 16 percent of all manufacturing in the country.

Turkey’s sugar beet planted area is expected to increase by 3 percent to 340,000 hectares (ha) in MY 2018/19, due to the slightly increased quota for sugar production.

Turkey’s wheat production for marketing year (MY) 2018/19 is forecast at 19.3 MMT, which is slightly lower compared to the previous year due to decreased planting area.

Turkey has revised its livestock genetics import requirements for 2018 and this year has focused on simplifying the import process.

Turkish cotton area and production are forecast to increase about ten percent in Marketing Year (MY) 2018/19, reaching 520,000 hectares and 950,000 MT (4.36 million bales) as a result....

Turkey’s MY 2018/19 oilseeds production is expected to rise four percent to 3.06 MMT.

The Turkish retail food sector continues to grow in 2017 and 2018. Discount retail chains with compact stores remain the growth driver, both in number of stores and sales volumes.

In an effort to tackle food price inflation, Turkey has implemented temporary tariff reductions on rice.

On December 31, 2017, in their annual announcement of the tariffs for the upcoming year, Turkey decreased the custom tariffs for walnuts and almonds to 15 percent from 43.2 percent.

Turkey has delayed the implementation of a Product Verification Monitoring System (PVMS) for another one year.

This report outlines specific requirements for food and agricultural product imports into Turkey.