Foreign Trade

Press release… Exports to the USA increase with added value of the Turkish Tastes brand… The ‘Turkish Tastes-TURQUALITY Project on the Importance of Turkish Products in Healthy Nutrition’, supported by the Ministry of Trade with the participation of 6 food exporter associations under the roof of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations …

Supported by the Türkiye’s Southwestern province of Muğla’s Governorship Investment Monitoring and Coordination Directorate (YİKOB) and the South Aegean Development Agency (GEKA), ‘Rural Development Model in Local: Muğla’ project, Muğla’s local products will be opened to world markets with a new trade model. Within the scope of the project, cooperative …

Türkiye, one of the leading countries in world pasta production, is experiencing a ‘durum’ crisis. It is stated that some manufacturers use ‘bread wheat’ instead of ‘durum wheat’ in production in order to provide cost advantage. Stating that these companies gain a price advantage of 15 to 20 percent, sector …

Press release… In a period when agricultural products, especially in Türkiye and Mediterranean countries, are adversely affected due to climate change, the countdown has started for Türkiye’s export project Interfresh Eurasia Fair. Murat Özer Türkiye wants to get a share from the fruit and vegetable trade, which is expected to …

Press release… Southeastern Anatolian Exporters’ Associations (GAİB) took action regarding the allegations that the oils obtained from soybeans imported under the Inward Processing Regime for use in the feed sector are used in blending oils. Celal Kadooğlu, Chair of Southeastern Anatolian Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (GAİB), …

Turkish honey was sold to 11 countries, especially to the USA, from the Eastern Black Sea region in the January-July period. Saffet Kalyoncu Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB), said 335 tonnes of honey was exported from the region in …

The “strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture” has entered its final stages.   The 29 food sector representatives invited to the roundtable, set up by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “tackle polarisation” in the sector, will discuss a draft version of the dialogue’s conclusions next week.  Ursula von der Leyen Previous meetings …

Press release… The 7-month exports of the region in the field of cereals, pulses, oil seeds and products, which is the most exporting sector of Southeastern Anatolia, was 1.9 billion dollars. During this period, total cereal exports from the region exceeded 2.5 million tonnes. Companies in the region exported 586 …

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Assocaition, stated that they entered the 2023/24 season with an export target of 300 million dollars in dried figs, the fruit of paradise. Mehmet Ali Işık Pointing out that dried fig exports reached 277 million dollars, …

Press release… Since 2018, Türkiye’s East Mediterranean province of Mersin has become the ‘Partner City’ of Interfresh Eurasia Fair, which has been organised since 2018 and has become Türkiye’s showcase of the fruit and vegetable sector in the world. Mersin province, with its citrus fruits, fruit and vegetables, flavours, institutions …