Turkey prevents the export of dozens of products due to the Ukraine war..and these are the concerned countries

A few days ago, the General Customs Directorate of the Turkish Ministry of Trade issued a decision banning the export of a number of goods and products outside Turkey.

Syrian websites circulated a copy of the decision written in Turkish and Arabic, which was interpreted by a number of traders as related to the export of Turkish goods and products to neighboring countries, especially Syria and Iraq, which rely heavily on Turkish products.

The decision stipulated banning the export of the following products and their derivatives:

Cereals: wheat - wheat - barley - oats - corn.

Legumes: lentils - red lentils - white beans - dry beans - chickpeas.

Seeds and oils: sunflower seeds - sunflower seeds (crude and refined) - safflower seeds - safflower oil (crude and derived) - rapeseed - rapeseed oil (crude and refined) - palm seeds - palm oil (crude and refined) - soybeans - soybean oil (Raw and Refined) - Olive oil, 5 kg containers and above

Fodder: All types of bran and chaff produced from grains and legumes that were prohibited from being exported in the decree and previously mentioned, in addition to the stalks, shells and bran of pistachios, corn, cakes, cotton, beet and the like of these products, alfalfa, broken fodder corn, barley nut, cottonseed meal, and sunflower seed meal. Soybean husks, and all soybean oil residues, including bran and meal, and banning the export of all kinds of meal.

Mazen Alloush, Director of Public Relations at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in Idlib countryside, confirmed the validity of the statement issued by the Turkish Customs Directorate, and said: The Turkish side has actually stopped exporting these products towards Idlib through the Bab al-Hawa crossing.

Alloush pointed out that there are no accurate statistics for the products that northern Syria imports from Turkey, and what the region needs annually from the products that Turkey has banned from exporting.

Economic specialists pointed out that the Turkish decision stems from the effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the efforts of various countries, including Turkey, to preserve its strategic stocks of various commodities, especially foodstuffs, fodder, fuel, wheat and oils, which Russia and Ukraine consider to be among the most prominent sources around the world.

Specialists emphasized that the decision to prevent Turkish exports would not cause a disaster in Idlib, while Turkey allowed goods from various countries to cross into Idlib through its territory as a "transit", as the products that were banned from being exported from countries other than Turkey can be secured.

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