Your product probably already arrives in Türkiye.
Not necessarily yours — but products under your customs code cross the border every month, brought in by companies you could name. That record exists, it is public, and it answers most of the questions a market entry business case is usually built on assumptions about.
We take your product's customs code and look at what actually happens under it: import volumes, origin countries, the kind of companies importing, tariff exposure and an indicative landed cost. From that, which entry routes are realistic and which are not.
It is free, prepared by our consultants, and there is no form to fill in. If the answer is that you should not enter, that is also a finding.
The customs code is the only shared fact.
Market research usually starts with a category — "industrial pumps", "cosmetics", "automotive components". Those are commercial descriptions and they do not correspond to anything measurable. Every country's statistics, every tariff schedule and every customs declaration is organised by code.
So a code is where a conversation about Türkiye can stop being anecdotal. It is also the number that determines your duty, your permits and which ministry has to approve you — which is why getting it right is the first piece of work rather than the last.
A category is a description. A code is a fact you can check against somebody else's records.
Why the scan starts where it doesSix questions, before you spend anything.
None of these require you to have entered, committed or paid. They are answerable from public records plus the judgement to read them properly.
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Is there demand, and is it growing?
Import volume under your code over time. A category that peaked four years ago looks the same as a growing one in a brochure and nothing like it in the data.
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Who is already supplying it?
Origin countries and their share. If a neighbouring country dominates on freight cost alone, that is a structural fact about your competitiveness, not a sales problem.
- 03
What kind of company imports it?
Distributors, industrial end users, retail chains. This shapes whether you need a distributor, a direct presence or neither.
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What is the tariff and tax exposure?
The duty rate that follows from the code, VAT, and any supervision regime or permit requirement attached to it.
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What does it cost to land here?
Indicative landed cost — goods, freight, insurance, duty, VAT, handling, inland transport. The number your Turkish price list depends on.
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Which routes are realistic?
Own entity, distributor, or a provider importing on your behalf — assessed against what the data says rather than against what we would prefer to sell you.
Public trade statistics: UN Comtrade, the Turkish statistical institute, ministry of trade publications and exporter association data. These are the sources any competent analyst would use, and we name them so the work can be checked.
We do not claim a proprietary database, because we do not have one and the claim would not survive a serious question. What we add is knowing which code applies to your product, what the numbers do and do not show, and what follows from them commercially.
Because charging for it
would change what it says.
A paid report has to justify its fee. That pressure is quiet and it points one way: toward a recommendation to proceed, toward an opportunity being found, toward the next engagement.
We would rather be able to tell you not to enter — and that is only credible if the conversation cost you nothing.
There is also no form wall. You will not be asked to surrender an email address to read a page or download a summary. If there is a product and a code we can work with, we do the work and we talk.
Questions we are actually asked.
Including whether there is an automated version, where the honest answer is not yet.
What exactly is the Opportunity Scan?
An assessment built around your product's customs code. What is imported into Türkiye under that code, in what volume, from which countries, by what kind of company, and what the tariff and tax exposure looks like. From that, an indicative landed cost and a view on which entry routes are realistic.
It is prepared by our consultants, not generated automatically, and it is free. There is no form wall — you ask, we talk, and if there is a product and a code we can work with we do the work.
Why is it free?
Because it is how we decide whether to work together, and because charging for it would change what it says. A paid report has to justify its fee, and that pressure pushes toward a recommendation to proceed.
We would rather be able to tell you not to enter. That is only credible if the conversation cost you nothing.
Where does the data come from?
Public trade statistics — UN Comtrade, the Turkish statistical institute, ministry of trade publications and exporter association data. These are the same sources any competent analyst would use, and we name them so you can check the work.
We do not claim a proprietary database. What we add is knowing which code actually applies to your product, what the numbers do and do not show, and what follows commercially.
What if our product does not have a clear code?
Then that is the first finding, and a useful one. Products that sit between classifications carry real risk — a wrong code means an understated liability that stays open for years. If the classification is genuinely ambiguous we say so and treat determining it as the first piece of work rather than an assumption.
Will you tell us not to enter?
Sometimes, and we would rather do it before you commit than bill you for a structure you did not need. If your product already reaches Türkiye through distributors who serve the market well, or the volume does not carry the fixed cost of a presence, entry can destroy margin rather than create it.
A provider whose only recommendation is ever to proceed is not advising you.
Is there an automated version?
Not yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Our intention is to systematise parts of this so it runs faster and covers more codes. Today it is consultant work, which is slower, and in exchange somebody reads the numbers rather than formatting them.
Customs & Foreign Trade
Classification, importer of record and landed cost built line by line.
Enter Türkiye
Four decisions before the company — including whether to enter at all.
Tell us your product
A code or a description is enough to begin. No form, no fee.