Bonded Warehouse Services

A bonded warehouse is a place where imported goods are stored under customs supervision without customs duties being paid. While in the warehouse the goods are not in free circulation; the duty liability arises only when they are withdrawn and an import declaration is lodged. Kral Antrepo provides this service from a 1,400 m² covered facility in Dörtyol. Below we explain both how the warehousing procedure works and how we run it.

Three core advantages of the warehousing procedure

The warehousing procedure gives an importer three concrete freedoms. They come from the regulation itself, not from any operator's goodwill.

• Duty suspension. Customs duty and VAT are not paid until the goods leave the warehouse. An importer who cannot sell immediately can hold stock without tying up working capital in duty.
• No time limit. There is no limit on how long goods may remain under the warehousing procedure. Your stock plan need not be built around a customs deadline.
• Partial withdrawal. You need not clear the whole consignment at once; withdraw what you sell and pay duty on that part only. On high-tonnage steel shipments this is the clearest benefit.

Types of customs warehouse: which one fits?

Under Turkish customs law warehouses are divided into public and private. Public warehouses (types A, B and F) may hold anyone's goods; private warehouses (types C, D and E) are only for the operator's own goods.

The crucial difference is liability. In a type A warehouse the operator keeps the stock records and is personally liable for the duty if a shortfall appears; in type B, liability rests largely with the owner of the goods and no stock record is kept. Asking which type an operator runs is the same as asking who will be liable if something goes missing.

Time limits and the dates that matter

There is no limit on how long goods may remain under the warehousing procedure. However, once a declaration is registered assigning the goods to another customs-approved treatment or use, the formalities must be completed within 30 days.

Goods whose formalities are not completed in that period — and goods not removed within any separately fixed period — are liquidated under Article 177 of the Customs Law. The ministry may set a separate limit for goods liable to deteriorate (Customs Regulation, Art. 389).

In practice this is the most common failure: a declaration is registered, the process then drags on because of financing or missing paperwork, and the 30-day window is missed. In our view tracking this is the operator's job — we record the registration date and alert both the customer and the customs broker before the deadline falls.

What our facility offers

• 1,400 m² of covered storage under customs supervision
• Stacking that protects steel from humidity and surface damage
• Container loading/unloading and forklift handling
• Inbound/outbound records per line and 24/7 online stock viewing
• All-risk warehouse insurance and a fire suppression system
• Operational support in Turkish, English, Arabic and German