Additional tax on nuts from Ukraine
Turkey
Wednesday 17 July 2013
FJ
Turkey establishes an additional tax of 23% of Ukrainian walnut.
Turkish gouvernament decided to establish an additional tax of 23% on imports of Ukrainian nuts. Published in Official Journal on 12 July, the new legislation came into force.
With this new law, the total amount of taxes on Ukrainian nuts now amounts to 66.2%. Taxes applied to nuts imported from EU, from EFTA member countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) or from Georgia is maintained at 44.2%.
In Ukraine, where the nut producers are outraged and find that this new tax comes in response to the restrictions made ??by the country on imports of cars. Different had opposed the two countries on the Ukrainian tax applied to cars imported from Turkey.
source : ukrinform ua, interfax co uk