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    Partial Removal of Turkish Obstacle to Import of Armenian Goods?

    Vahe Sarukhanyan

    hetq
    12:08, October 21, 2011

    According to Mustafa Edib Yilmaz, business editor of the Turkish daily
    Today's Zaman, the volume of trade between Armenia and Turkey today is
    considered to be around 400 million dollars, which is an figure.

    Yilmaz hopes that in the event of the borders opening, the volume of
    trade will increase to ten times this number. Zumrut Imamoghlu, an
    expert at the center of economic and social research at Istanbul's
    BahçeÅ?ehir University, expressed feeling surprise upon learning that
    the import of goods from Armenia was prohibited.

    Turkey does not prohibit this import officially, but the strict
    policies in place at Turkish customs points against Armenian importers
    make it pointless for them to try and bring any Armenian goods into
    the country. Also, Turkey currently does not allow the entry of
    vehicles with more than 16 passenger seats into the country, if they
    have Armenian license plates. This means that Armenians bringing
    goods from Turkey back home need to either use a number of vans, or
    use large buses with Turkish license plates, the likes of which
    regularly travel from Yerevan and back. In both cases, the winner is
    Turkey.

    Therefore, it is possible to say that the 400 million dollars of trade
    is, in reality, mostly one-way traffic. However, based on information
    made available to Hetq, the two member countries of the Black Sea
    Economic Cooperation organization are currently in negotiations to
    move towards a simplified procedure to allow trade by up to 200
    freight trucks annually, moving from Armenia through Georgia to Turkey
    and back. An agreement to this effect exists between the BSEC
    members, but it has not yet been implemented due to a lack of
    diplomatic relations between the countries.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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