Where your stock sits decides when you pay.

A bonded warehouse — antrepo — holds goods under customs supervision with import duty and VAT suspended. The goods have not entered free circulation, so nothing has been paid yet. A free warehouse holds goods that have already cleared customs and are ordinary commercial stock.

The practical difference is cash. In a bonded warehouse you pay when the goods leave for the Turkish market, and on the quantity that leaves. In a free warehouse you paid on the whole consignment when it arrived.

No. Bonded storage costs more per pallet and carries stricter record-keeping and customs supervision. It earns its place when stock sits for a while, when a meaningful share will be re-exported rather than sold here, or when the duty and VAT on a full consignment would tie up cash you need elsewhere.

For fast-moving stock that will all be sold in Türkiye within weeks, a free warehouse is usually simpler and cheaper. We work this out on your volumes rather than defaulting to the more expensive option.

Warehousing and customs-supervised storage are operated under licences and facilities held by our logistics and customs partners. We design the flow, choose the customs status, place the stock and are answerable to you for the result under your contract with us.

We are specific about this because the alternative — implying we hold every licence involved — is the kind of claim that collapses on the first inspection.

Yes, through the client portal: quantities, locations, customs status and movements. Stock reporting that arrives as a spreadsheet by email once a month is not visibility, it is a summary of a situation that has already changed.

Yes — receipt, inspection, restocking, and disposal or repair where that is the outcome. Returns are usually underestimated at the planning stage and then become the reason a fulfillment arrangement stops working.

Where returned goods were imported under a particular customs regime, the return itself can have customs consequences. That is checked before the flow is designed, not after the first pallet comes back.

Goods can sit in a bonded warehouse without entering free circulation, and there is a trade regime that contemplates selling such goods onward. Whether it works for your case depends on who owns the goods, who issues the invoice and where the commercial activity is considered to take place.

We are taking formal tax advice on this, specifically on whether holding stock on a client's behalf creates a permanent establishment for that client in Türkiye. We will publish the detail when we have the advice rather than before.