Türkiye’s Ministry of Trade published its September 2026 foreign-trade bulletin on 3 October. Based on ministry administrative records, exports rose 15.4% from the same month a year earlier to $25.976 billion, while imports increased 5.9% to $31.208 billion. Total trade volume grew 10% to $57.185 billion. The goods trade deficit was $5.232 billion, 24.8% below September 2025. The export-to-import coverage ratio rose 6.8 percentage points to 83.2%. The ministry also reported a 100.3% ratio excluding energy and 97.7% excluding both energy and gold. These measures vary according to which import categories are excluded and should not be confused with the headline ratio. The ministry says September figures were compiled from its own administrative records, while earlier periods are drawn from official statistics published jointly with the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). The release is therefore a monthly administrative-record bulletin. Its dollar totals are nominal trade values and do not, on their own, indicate changes in real volumes or price-adjusted purchasing power.

For January–September, exports rose 5.2% to $210.973 billion and imports increased 5.4% to $281.998 billion. The nine-month trade deficit was $71.025 billion, up 5.8% year on year. Germany was Türkiye’s largest export market in September at $2.045 billion, followed by the United States at $1.919 billion and the United Kingdom at $1.430 billion. China led imports at $5.267 billion, ahead of Germany and the United States. By Broad Economic Categories, exports of intermediate goods totalled $14.165 billion and consumer-goods exports $7.851 billion. Manufacturing accounted for 93% of exports; agriculture, forestry and fishing represented 3.5%. These distributions describe the composition of recorded trade flows, not company profitability, domestic value added or real export volumes. The ministry’s report presents current-dollar values, and it notes that rounding can affect totals. The detailed source is the ministry’s four-page September foreign-trade data bulletin. The figures should be interpreted within its stated administrative-record methodology and reporting period.