With a step taken in Turkey in the past years, it is worth less than 200 dollars. smart phone arrangements were made for the models.
In 2020, the Communiqué of the Ministry of Commerce on the Implementation of Surveillance in Imports was published in the Official Gazette and entered into force. With this notice,Transmitting portable (Cellular) wireless telephone devices with receiver” The procedures and principles regarding the prospective surveillance application in the import of the goods defined as With that decision smart phone In imports, a surveillance application of 200 dollars per piece was introduced as a unit customs value. It is stated that the surveillance application will be applied only for the goods below the said value, and the unit price in order to protect the domestic producer. under $200 The phones were made importable only with the permission of the Ministry of Commerce. In this respect As of March 28 A new era would begin. With the communiqué amending the communiqué on the implementation of surveillance in imports, published within the scope of the Official Gazette numbered 2020/6, the value in the surveillance application previously in force for mobile phones with a unit customs value of less than 200 dollars per piece, Reorganized to 350 dollars. Accordingly, the import of smartphones with a unit customs value of less than $350 could be imported with a surveillance document to be issued by the Ministry of Commerce (General Directorate of Imports). Just a moment ago, a step has been taken in this regard and the controversial regulation has been cancelled. was done.
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If the cancellation step was not taken, there would be a serious increase in smartphone prices in Turkey. Before in a shared post A mobile phone imported with the new regulation and with a tax-free price of approximately 3 thousand 800 TL It was said that as of March 28, at least 2 thousand 500 TL will be increased. When other taxes such as SCT, VAT, TRT Banderole fee are added to this, the price of the phone would go up to 10 thousand 500 TL. Firstly, 1% of the Ministry of Culture’s share and then 10% of the TRT Bandrol fee are deducted from the smartphones that come to Turkey. Then, 50 percent SCT is added over all these figures. The price of the phone is doubled at least by taking 18 percent VAT on the resulting figure.
Talking about the new era Ertan Şensoy, Deputy General Manager of Vivo TürkiyeWith this arrangement, newly imported smartphones are in the first stage. He said he would get a 20% raise. Şensoy also stated that due to the price increases and economic uncertainties in the Turkish market the other day, the phone replacement period has increased from 18 months to 48 months in recent years. Şensoy stated that the new regulation will not affect them because they are producing in Turkey, and also gave information about his company and announced that they will make a fourth band investment for 5G supported devices in the factory in Gebze in the second half of this year, and that they plan to increase production by 20 percent with this.