If you run cross-border e-commerce out of a Turkish base — your own site, Etsy, a marketplace — a quiet regulatory change at the end of 2025 just widened your runway. On 4 December 2025 Türkiye doubled the micro-export ceiling, from the long-standing 300 kg / €15,000 to 600 kg / €30,000 per shipment. It's the kind of change that doesn't make headlines but directly affects how much you can move through the simplified channel before bureaucracy kicks in.
Note: Limits, excluded product categories and VAT-refund procedures change. Before making operational decisions, confirm current rules with your customs broker and the Ministry of Trade.
What ETGB does for you
The backbone of micro-export is the ETGB — the Electronic Trade Customs Declaration. In conventional export you engage a customs broker, open a declaration, and work through the paperwork. In micro-export, shipments below a set weight and value threshold clear through the express-carrier's indirect representation, without a customs broker, via the ETGB. A small workshop can effectively export order-by-order, much like issuing an invoice and handing the parcel to a courier.
Two concrete benefits follow. Bureaucracy is minimal. And because an ETGB-backed dispatch counts as an export, it opens the door to VAT refunds — exports are VAT-exempt, so the input VAT you paid domestically becomes recoverable. Even at small volumes that's a line item that touches your margin.
Why the increase matters
The old 300 kg / €15,000 ceiling was a shirt that got tight fast for a growing seller. A few bulk orders, some bulky products, and you were brushing against the limit within a month. Cross it, and micro-export closes — you fall back to full export procedure with a broker and a complete declaration, meaning cost and delay.
At 600 kg / €30,000, that ceiling doubled. In practice you can ship heavier goods through the same simple channel and scale monthly volume while staying in the light-touch regime. That's exactly the policy intent: spread foreign-currency-earning small exports more widely and raise the bureaucratic threshold that used to cap small businesses.
The operational question that actually matters
The catch worth engineering for: these limits apply per shipment, so the real capability you need is deciding, before dispatch, which channel each order takes. If an order exceeds €30,000 or 600 kg, it won't fit micro-export — it either gets split or routed to full export.
Doing that arithmetic in your head at the loading bay produces errors. This is where the ERP earns its place: compute each order's total weight and value, flag micro-export eligibility, and route the right document (ETGB-backed dispatch vs full export) down the right path. There's a second reason to wire this in: ETGB dispatches need to be recorded distinctly and traceably for the VAT refund. Tagging each export at the moment of dispatch beats reconstructing the refund file at year-end.
How Birasyo handles it
In Birasyo ERP, international orders are evaluated at order entry against weight and value; micro-export eligibility is flagged, and ETGB-backed dispatches are tracked separately for VAT-refund purposes. Orders from your own store and from marketplaces land in one pool, with export documents and carrier integration running from the same place. If you're scaling cross-border sales from Türkiye, book a session and we'll model the setup against your channels.
Sources
Limits and the effective date below are as of May 2026; scope changes, so confirm with your customs broker:
- Evren Özmen — E-Commerce / ETGB Limit 2026: New Era in Micro-Export
- İstanbul Export Center — E-Export Guide 2026 (ETGB, BGB, VAT Refund)
- T.C. Ministry of Trade — official site
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