Free Trade Agreement between Morocco and Turkiye

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Turkiye and Morocco first entered into force on January 1, 2006. It was later amended in 2020, and has been in force in its current version since May 2022. 

The FTA provides for the elimination of border tariffs for most of industrial and energy sector products, including:

• Steel.
• Aluminium.
• Non-nitrogen fertilizers.
• Heat Pumps.
• Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators; electrical parts of machinery or apparatus.
• Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof; except for: Works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, of the type used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport of goods; tractors of the type used on railway station platforms; parts of the foregoing vehicles. 
• Nickel oxide and scrap 
• Motors and engines

Rules of origin delineated in the Agreement state the following conditions for products to benefit from preferential tariff treatment : 
- products have to be wholly produced in one of the signatory countries or 
-products incorporating non-originating materials have to have undergone a significant production process in one of the signatory countries (eg one that entails changes in terms of tariff classification), unless the value of non-originating materials does not exceed 25% to 50% of the ex-works price of the product.

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