Customs Law

We are highly experienced in customs practices in Turkey. Customs law advice requires a multidisciplinary approach including international and local trade laws, conventions, transportation and insurance laws as well as employment and criminal laws. Having represented clients from variety of industries that needed customs law advice including exporters, importers, carriers, warehouses, insurers we have developed local expertise in this area.

We advise our clients in connection with customs law in Turkey on issues including:

• Tariff classification
• Preferential and non-preferential origin issues
• Tariff quota and duty suspensions
• Customs valuation
• Outward and inward processing procedures
• Customs investigations
• Repayment and remission requests
• Voluntary disclosures
• Anti-counterfeiting measures
• Custom tax issues
• Insurance and reinsurance coverage
• Employer and employee liability
• Product liability
• Contractual liability due to delays and defects
• Criminal cases arising from customs practice including smuggling, forgery and bribery.