Turkey can get under US sanctions through selling chips for military needs

According to FT calculations based on Turkish customs data, for the first six months of 2024, such equipment was set by $ 85 million, which is much higher than $ 27 million over the same 2022 period. Matthew Axelrod, Assistant Minister of Trade, recently met with Turkish officials and executives in Ankara and Istanbul in the framework of efforts to stop illegal trade.

His message was that Turkey should work more on the restriction of trade in chips of American descent and other details, which are crucial for the war of Russia against Ukraine. Turkey should help stop the illegal flow of US technologies to Russia, Axelrod said in a statement for Financial Times. "We need to see real actions in this direction from the Turkish authorities and industry, otherwise we will have no other choice but to impose sanctions on those who evade our export control," he added.

The United States is concerned that Turkey has become a key center through which Western production electronics, including processors, memory maps and amplifiers, gets to the Russian Federation, where they are installed on rockets and drones, thereby disrupting export control. The US, the EU, the United Kingdom and Japan have united to control the trade in civilian military products, which allies consider high -priority for Russia's war in Ukraine.

According to a representative of the Ministry of Commerce, Turkey is the second largest source in the world, after China, high -priority goods of American descent sent to the Russian Federation. The Trade Department has already added 18 Turkish companies to its "black" list of legal entities. The Ministry of Finance has imposed separate sanctions against some Turkish companies for the supply of the Russian military-industrial complex.