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“ITM 2020 To Open

New Horizons In

The Textile Industry

And To Generate

Innovative Ideas”

İsmail Gülle
Chairman of TIM (Turkey Exporters Assembly)

Chairman of TIM (Turkey Exporters Assembly) İsmail Gülle said, “ITM is an organization, which has become a brand
in our country both by bringing together all the players in the industry and allowing us to keep up with the new
technologies in machinery.”

hairman of TIM, İsmail Gülle has been change. According to the General Trade System, our exports with your “Turkey with a foreign trade
pulling out all the stops for Turkey to achieve exports increased to 176.8 billion dollars, while our surplus” target. What projects do you have for
the export targets. Noting that Turkey is trade balance ratio became 75.3%, the highest in the this? Can you tell us about the prioritized sectors,
Ccoming close to the 200 billion dollar export last 10 years. In 2019, our exports continued to increase if any, and target countries?
target for 2019, Gülle said that they are building a despite the cyclical risks and challenges in the first Our top priority is to increase the share of “high
new architecture for exports. “We are building a new four months. In the first four months, according to the technology products,” which is 3.3% in our exports as
architecture for exports based on the 5S Vision, that is GTS account, our exports amounted to 59.7 billion of today, and to increase our exports value by weight,
Strong Turkey, Strong Economy, Strong Exports, Strong dollars. In April, our exports rose to 15.3 billion dollars which is 1.3 dollars per kilogram. In global trade, it
Human Assets and Strong Exports Infrastructure. Our on a monthly basis, and rose to 179 billion dollars in is now impossible to achieve significant changes
priority is to increase the share of exports of high-tech the last 12 months. This indicates that we are now in exports by producing more and selling more just
products, which amounts to 3.3% today and to increase very close to our 182 billion dollars target set out in the with competition in prices. Therefore R&D, design,
our exports value by weight, which is 1.3 dollars per “New Economy Program” announced in September. innovation and technological transformation have
kilogram.” We declared 2019 as the “Year of Sustainability become a must for exports. I believe the investments
We held an interview with TIM Chairman İsmail Gülle made especially in the projects should be monitored
for ITM News. Gülle shared his views on Turkey’s better. The money we invest in innovation, R&D
export target, projects and ITM 2020. “I believe that our industry can grow much and technology and the funds transferred for these
faster by increasing our share with new purposes are definitely some of the issues we
Turkey broke a record in 2018 with 168 billion initiatives, and with trade shows like ITM, should seriously dwell upon. Although we are above
dollars of exports. For 2019, 200 billion dollars of the OECD average in terms of R&D expenditures
exports are planned. In addition, you declared which has made a name in the world now.” as of today, unfortunately, the number of products
2019 as ”The Year of Sustainability and Innovation we can commercialize and put on the market is not
in Exports.” Can you tell us about your action at the desired level. We are highlighting this issue
plan to reach these targets as TIM, and the and Innovation.” In addition, we are building a new especially during the Innovation Week and Design
contributions of the “5S Road Map” that you architecture for exports based on the 5S Vision, that Week events we hold every year. And we also
announced? is Strong Turkey, Strong Economy, Strong Exports, provide the required assistance to our companies
2018 was a historical year for Turkey’s exports with Strong Human Assets and Strong Export Infrastructure. to commercialize the products developed at our
in spite of the trade wars, Brexit, rising populism and We have started to lay the foundations for this new entrepreneurship houses. While digital conversion,
regional conflicts. Our exports reached 168 billion architecture with new projects and applications such blockchain, artificial intelligence and IoTare being
dollars, a record-breaking amount for the history of as “Registration of items that were not registered talked about in today’s world, we should definitely
the Republic. Also, I think it is important that I should before for exports”, “Digital transformation for exports” contribute to create the know-how for exporters in
underline that, we are now applying a new method in and “TIMTank”, which we have implemented and Turkey. Now we should not only use technology, but
calculating our exports and imports. As you know, we will continue implementing to maintain the success we should be a country designing, producing and
didn’t use to record the figures of exports made from momentum we have had in 2018. exporting technology. This way we can boost our
the “free zones” and “warehouses.” Although these exports, and get one step closer to our “Turkey with a
products are ours and exported from our country, “WE CAN BOOST OUR EXPORTS IF WE START foreign trade surplus” target.
they were not being included in the calculation. In DESIGNING, PRODUCING AND EXPORTING Currently, our share in the global trade has reached
this regard, the “General Trade System” which we TECHNOLOGY INSTEAD OF JUST USING IT” 0.9%. As a result of the organizational transformation
started using as of January 2019 is a revolutionary You are planning to increase our share in global that we have made within TIM, we have started to

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