Tarros - Turkish Advanced Manifest

We would like to inform you that new customs requirement, which is called Turkish Advanced Manifest and similar to Entry Summary Declaration (ENS) rules of EU, will take effect in Turkey as of 01/01/2012.
The mentioned declaration will be required for all of shipments from any country to Turkey including the containers to be transhipped at Turkish ports.

Turkish Advanced Manifest concerning Short Sea Port of Loading as follows:

- Black Sea and Mediterranean territories are considered under Short Sea and the required declaration has to be executed at least 2 hours before vessel’s arrival at first Turkish port in schedule.

Along with this new requirement, some additional information will be mandatory to be mentioned on bills of lading. Hence, shipping instructions must read the following details as well:

Cargoes to Turkey:
- Full description of commodity/commodities
- First 6 digit of Harmonized code/codes of subject commodities
- Tax ID Number of the Consignee and Notify party/parties.

Cargoes via Turkey (transhipment via Turkish ports):
- Full description of commodity/commodities
- First 6 digit of Harmonized code/codes of subject commodities.

In addition to above, there will be more restrictions regarding customer details that will be shown on bill of lading.
- In case of TO ORDER B/L, Tax ID number of notify party/parties must be indicated,
- Cargo description must be indicated clearly item by item,
- Harmonized codes must be indicated item by item.

These information must be required to shippers/forwarders of shippers and is compulsory to indicate the required details on Bills of Lading and Manifest of Cargo.
There will be no grace period and we are looking for apply below mentioned tariff for shipments destinated to Turkey,
- USD 25 per BL
- EUR 19 per BL

If any custom penalty is imposed by Turkish Customs Authority due to missing or wrong declaration, penalty amount will be reflected to the party having fault.