Those who are prudent will win. Those who cannot manage their expenses will go bankrupt. On one hand you will expect that Turkey exports. You will facilitate exports so that our country's current account deficit decreases and foreign currency inflows increase. Moreover, you will make changes to the European Union harmonization laws and your foreign trade legislation 20 years ago. On the other hand, foreign trade players will not fully implement these laws.
The state will accept to these laws with the government and parliament. The institutions of the state, which are obliged to enforce these laws, will be reluctant to enforce the laws for some reason and will even do otherwise.
We are in a period of moving with the awareness that one is greater than zero. When you pinch pennies, how come do you ignore a loss of $ 4 billion a year. How dare and why on earth the institutions that are responsible for enforcing the laws and those who manage those institutions remain spectators of the state's loss of $ 4 billion by serving.
Customs Law No. 4458 has been harmonized with the EU. Not only that, with the amendment in our Turkish Commercial Code, the delivery order document previously included in the law has been removed from the Customs Law but also the General Directorate of Customs stated in a letter that the parties can no longer be charged under the name of the delivery order.
We must manage our expenses correctly in the crisis period when profitability has fallen. Industrialists should inquire about the bills they have paid and ask for accounts that should not be paid, such as delivery order
At the end of the job, the only winner is the company lawyers who do not stop following this issue. Because a situation that is against the law turns from the judiciary. The time we waste and the money and energy we spend is the tragic side of the business.
I told you today about the money that will enter the safe of Turkey $ 4 billion. I am saying that you will be among the industrialists who take the law issued by the state.
Foreign trade companies do not question their expenses
Export and import companies pay for the paid shipment, such as delivery order, handling charge, hold on board and registration, to the delivery to the door and the port's customs warehouse.
In the provisions of the Turkish commercial law, the distinction, responsibility and rights of companies such as carrier, agency, freight and broker are clearly stated. The carriers, called merchants, have to fulfill their duties and responsibilities like every merchants.
Merchants continue to take the delivery order and similar fees prohibited by law under other names by opening temporary customs warehouses or negotiating with warehouses.
So why does the general directorate of customs and customs directorates responsible for enforcing the law tolerate this situation when they have irrefutable laws?
How the carriers will receive their progress payments is also written in the law. For example, if the trader is unable to charge the cost of a transport he brings as payable, he can return to the sender and receive it like a normal merchant. In accordance with the Law numbered 4458 as mentioned in the 1178th article of the Turkish Commercial Code; Carrier, electronically notifies the customs, such as the sender, receiver, container number, weight of the goods it carries. This information is called cargo manifest. And he has to bring these goods to the customs and deliver them.
The carrier may submit this cargo manifest himself. However, if there is no foreign company or its own office, by paying the fee through an agency channel, he hires an agent for this job. This agency is obliged to both give this simple manifesto to the customs and notify the buyers of the goods as “Your property with debt came. In the warehouse of customs, we delivered the containers damaged or intact” according to the law and international transportation rules. In doing so, it should work so that the buyer can receive the goods in the most economical way. The entire fee will be borne to the carrier company.
Despite the fact that all these are within the establishment decisions of the Ministry of Commerce with the decision of the Presidency No. 1 and are included in the General Directorate of Customs and Parliament laws, these institutions take the goods of foreign trade companies into the warehouse as required by law. However, these institutions do not remind the law about the fee that the warehouses will take and how they should act. A consultant cannot go to the Customs Directorate until he objects that this is illegal. Last week we started to see examples of this in our ports. But in the years that passed, Turkey lost 4 billion dollars every year.
I also think that the price list, which is open as 2019/8 and where open doors are left, should be questioned again. The way the warehouses and agencies work and their applications should be checked. Here, bureaucrats and officials at the customs have a big duty.
Otherwise, Turkish importers will continue to pay all of these local costs for imports from the world. These moneys are paid because they put them at their cost. Here are some questions in my head: Why do these things cost so much? Costs not in the world are exploited in our country through joint activities of agencies and temporary bonded warehouses. Customs are trying not to do its duty. The figures that these companies take unfairly are more than the customs tax collection of our country. It entered my warehouse in export. I get it too; I get that too. Fees like I weighed, looked at it when I was passing. Why carriers even sell the ticket, which they have to issue by law, for money. Anyone who wanders in the bonded area exploits the importer. Why do not customs hold their own areas? Why do warehousemen make collections for everyone with the powers they receive from the state or say, "Go to him, pay for it, that way your good will be sold". So, are the customs places where the laws do not apply? Then everyone would create their own law. Moreover, while doing this, they take the Customs Law and use it in a way that suits their book.
Foreign companies investing in Turkey hold back from foreign trade. Because the bills of these companies that do business in customs inspection are also full of lots of scams with unfounded content. Unfortunately, these invoices, which are prohibited in foreign markets, are paid by customs pressure. Even foreign carriers or offices have to take these unfair prices by the pressure of other players in the market. Of course, these prices are sweet. Even in our country, international couriers charge a lot of fees such as delivery order, warehouse, customs clearance, even though they charge for delivery to our home. And this money is going abroad again. You are asked for $ 1000 to $ 3000 money to give you the container.
Unfortunately, the customs warehouse makes you pay this amount. This money is going abroad. If it is not so and taxed on this inexpensive income, the work will be revealed and understood immediately. Turkey has 4 million container traffic per year. You calculate our damage now. Why are all we have expensive and why are our chances to compete weak? Because our foreign trade costs are too high to accept comparisons from other countries of the world due to these customs warehouses and transport agents. It is not enough in these ways. The FDC federal maritime commission said, "Come to the fair" with container penalties that are exempt from VAT, such as demurrage and detention. These figures, which make us sold houses, were close to abroad for free. I think if our country has a commission, our country trader would pay you more.
Turkish companies should be dominant in foreign trade
Unfortunately, the commercial culture of foreign trade companies is based on saving the day or making the highest profit that day. It is the customs directorate and customs consultants who will say stop the expenses that are against the law paid at the customs. If export and import companies want to be the dominant party, they should first inquire about the costs at the customs. If necessary, they can learn it from the other side of the trade, but they also get the answer that this is the law in your country. Because opportunists do this using custom.
Geri