Turkiye has expressed “honest remorse” over the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation by the Nationwide Tariff Fee (NTC) into the import of Disodium Carbonate (soda ash) from Turkiye and Kenya.
In a letter to the NTC, the business counsellor on the Turkish Embassy in Islamabad mentioned that any groundless anti-dumping measure with out enough justification may have detrimental results on the goal of $5 billion commerce quantity, which has been set by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
“NTC initiated an anti-dumping investigation of soda ash in opposition to Turkiye and Kenya on 18th July 2025, following the applying of […] that are dominating the soda ash manufacturing in Pakistan,” the official mentioned.
Subsequently, NTC despatched a questionnaire to be crammed by the Turkish corporations that produce and export soda ash to Pakistan, it mentioned, including {that a} delegation of the fee visited the Turkish corporations for on-the-spot investigation at their workplaces and crops in December 2025.
In October 2025, the Turkish Embassy submitted the official views of the federal government of Turkiye to the NTC.
“Our doc consists of Turkiye’s views and assessments, in addition to responses to the allegations made by Pakistani petitioners, who’re legally supported by […]. The doc additionally refers to related articles of the Settlement on Implementation of Article VI of the Normal Settlement on Tariffs and Commerce 1994 (the Anti-Dumping Settlement),” learn the letter.
The business counsellor added that the doc additionally refers to related articles of “Settlement on Implementation of Article VI of the Normal Settlement on Tariffs and Commerce 1994” (Anti-Dumping Settlement or ADA).
“We once more submit the talked about doc of Turkish official views as hooked up, remarking that our Workplace would not like to enter technical particulars on this letter,” learn the letter.
“Truthfully, our bilateral commerce quantity is just not satisfying when in comparison with the very constructive relations in politics and between our individuals arising from historical past,” mentioned the Turkish official.
The business counsellor additional mentioned that each nations are attempting to extend bilateral commerce and funding relations, including: “As an indicator of this, we have now began to work on increasing the scope of the Preferential Commerce Settlement between the 2 nations; the primary negotiation assembly will begin in Islamabad this month inshallah.”
“We’ve got little question that there shall be a good analysis. Whereas taking a choice concerning this investigation, we imagine that the fee will consider the afore-said paperwork and inferences from its verification go to to Turkish corporations,” learn the letter.
