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How the product safety directorate inside the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade inspects imported goods, runs the TAREKS risk system, surveils the domestic market, and sets the technical regulations a garment consignment must satisfy before it can be placed on the Turkish market.
The Ürün Güvenliği ve Denetimi Genel Müdürlüğü is the directorate inside the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade that guards the safety of products placed on the Turkish market. It inspects imported goods before release, checks products already in the domestic market, coordinates the technical regulations that define safety requirements, runs the electronic risk based inspection system known as TAREKS, and publishes the unsafe product notices that alert buyers and sellers.
Where the İthalat Genel Müdürlüğü writes the import rules and the Gümrükler Genel Müdürlüğü applies them at the border, this directorate answers the separate question of whether the product itself is safe and conforms. A declaration can clear customs and still be stopped when the product fails a product safety inspection.
Before an imported product may be released into free circulation, it can be checked for conformity with the technical regulation that covers it. The inspectorate targets consumer facing products that carry risk, not raw materials or intermediate goods, so resources concentrate on the smaller set of goods that can harm a user. This is the gate a garment consignment meets when it lands.
Products already on sale in Türkiye are checked the same way, whether they were imported or made locally. The rule is that a domestic producer and a foreign exporter answer to the same technical regulation, so market surveillance closes the gap after release and follows a product through its life on the shelf.
The product groups open to import inspection are named each year in the Ürün Güvenliği ve Denetimi tebliğs. Textile and apparel goods sit inside this scope, which is why a Philippine garment shipment can be sampled, held, or returned at the product safety gate.
The exact product list, thresholds, and test requirements change with each annual tebliğ. Confirm the current text for your HS line with the Turkish importer or a licensed broker before shipping.
TAREKS is the web based system through which import and export inspections are filed and tracked. It replaced the idea that every consignment must be physically inspected. Instead, the system scores each submission and sends the risky ones to a person.
The importer lodges the inspection application on TAREKS and uploads the conformity documents.
TAREKS weighs the declared product, the supplier history and the document set to rate the risk.
Low risk filings clear on the digital check without a physical inspection, so the consignment moves.
Higher risk filings are flagged for document review, sampling, or laboratory testing before release.
The framework law is the Product Safety and Technical Regulations Law No. 7223, which sets the duty to place only safe, conforming products on the market and the tools for enforcing it. The operative detail sits in the Ürün Güvenliği ve Denetimi tebliğs, published in the Resmî Gazete and refreshed most years, which name the products under inspection, the conformity route for each, and the documents required.
| Instrument | What it settles |
|---|---|
| Law No. 7223 | The safety duty, market surveillance powers, and sanctions for non conforming products. |
| Ürün Güvenliği ve Denetimi tebliğs | Which product groups are inspected at import, the conformity route, and the documents. |
| TAREKS tebliğ | The risk based electronic inspection procedure and the application channel. |
| Textile labelling rules | Fibre composition disclosure and the care and origin information a garment must carry. |
| Childrenswear safety rules | Drawstrings, cords, and small part safety for garments aimed at children. |
The annual text changes. Confirm the current instrument number and scope for your HS line from the Resmî Gazete or with a licensed broker before you ship, rather than relying on any summary.
Unsafe products found on the Turkish market are published through GÜBİS, the unsafe product notification system, so that buyers and sellers can act. A flag does not only affect the seller of the flagged item. It attaches to the model, the batch, and the supplier behind it, and it can reach a supply chain that imports the same goods.
The product is listed with its identity, the hazard, and the measure taken, so a reader can match it against stock on hand.
The supplier, importer, and distributor chain is examined, because the duty to place a safe product on the market travels with the goods.
Depending on the risk, the measure can run from a warning to a withdrawal from the market or a recall, with the seller carrying the cost.
For an exporter, the practical lesson is that a conformity claim must be true at the batch level. A certificate that describes a sample while the shipped goods differ is the fastest route to a flag.
Product safety inspection is a document and sample exercise long before it is a physical one. A Philippine apparel exporter that arrives with the right file clears faster than one that has to build it after the container lands.
The route itself runs from Philippine export gateways such as the Davao International Container Terminal and the Hijo Industrial Estate Special Economic Zone in Tagum City, to Turkish entry points including the Port of Ambarli, the Port of Aliaga, and Istanbul Airport for air freight. The full corridor is covered in our Philippines to Türkiye import guide.
We are a Philippine apparel manufacturer, not a customs broker or a conformity body. This checklist is the export side of the file. The Turkish importer, or a licensed broker, confirms the current tebliğ, the conformity route, and the acceptance of each document.
It is the General Directorate of Product Safety and Inspection inside the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade. It inspects imported products before release, checks products in the domestic market, coordinates technical regulations, runs the TAREKS risk system, and publishes unsafe product notices.
No. The Gümrükler Genel Müdürlüğü runs the customs declaration and duty side at the border. This directorate answers whether the product itself is safe and conforms to its technical regulation. A consignment can clear customs and still be stopped here.
TAREKS is the web based system for risk based import and export inspection. Every consignment is no longer inspected by default. The system scores each filing, releases the low risk ones electronically, and flags the higher risk ones for document review, sampling, or testing.
Textile and apparel products sit inside the scope of the annual Ürün Güvenliği ve Denetimi tebliğs. The exact product list and the test requirements change with each annual text, so the current instrument for your HS line must be confirmed before shipping.
The Product Safety and Technical Regulations Law No. 7223 sets the duty to place only safe, conforming products on the market and the powers to enforce it. The operative detail sits in the tebliğs published in the Resmî Gazete.
The product is published as unsafe, the supplier and distribution chain is traced, and the measure can run from a warning to a market withdrawal or a recall. The flag attaches to the model and the batch, so a conformity claim must hold at the batch level.
No. The TAREKS registration is lodged by the Turkish importer, who is the party in the system. The Philippine exporter prepares the product labelling, the test reports, and the conformity documents that the importer files, and stays reachable for inspection queries while the goods are at the gate.
Send the garment type, the target market, and the channel, and the sales desk will come back with the export side of the file: labelling, test reports, and conformity documents a Turkish importer can file.
