on january 20, 2023, the ministry of trade of turkey issued announcement no. 2023/5, which issued the polyurethane non-woven fabric products (tax number 5603.14) and per artificial leather (tax number 3921.13) with a weight of more than 150 grams per square meter initiated an anti-circumvention investigation to examine whether the involved products originating in china were imported to turkey via north macedonia to avoid anti-dumping duties.
on february 13, 2008, turkey launched an anti-dumping investigation on non-woven fabric products (tax number 5603.14) originating in china. on april 18, 2009, turkey made an affirmative final ruling on the case and imposed anti-dumping duties of us$1.9/kg on chinese nonwoven products. on april 12, 2015, turkey made the final ruling of the first anti-dumping sunset review on chinese nonwovens, and continued to impose an anti-dumping tax of us$1.9/kg (see announcement no. 2015/9). on october 16, 2018, turkey expanded the scope of products involved in the case and imposed an additional anti-dumping duty of us$1.9/kg on artificial leather (tax code 3921.13) originating in china. on may 28, 2021, the turkish ministry of trade issued announcement no. 2021/18, making the second anti-dumping sunset review final ruling on china's non-woven fabrics and artificial leather, maintaining the anti-dumping duty of $1.9/kg on the products involved, valid for 5 days year. on june 9, 2022, the ministry of trade of turkey issued announcement no. 2022/15, making an affirmative final ruling on anti-circumvention of non-woven fabric products and artificial leather in china, and imposed a 1.9 levy on the products involved in the case originating in or imported from malaysia and jordan. usd/kg anti-dumping duty.
