The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 04 January announced that on 30 December 2018 Turkey had initiated a safeguard investigation on yarn of nylon or other polyamides, classifiable in tariff subheadings 5402.31, 5402.32, 5402.45, 5402.51 and 5402.61.
The investigation was initiated upon an evaluation of evidence submitted by the domestic industry that an increase in imports had a negative trend in certain economic indicators, such as production, domestic sales and employment, of producers of the like product.