Trading houses · Istanbul Financial Center

Import without an import department.

Kervan brings you a verified trading house for the factory you buy from — in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, the UAE, Oman, the EU, the USA or India. The house contracts the factory on your terms and sells you the same goods in Turkish lira. We find, check and organise; we never hold your money.

No account, no subscription. One-time service option

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What your deal costs in Turkish lira

Choose the supplier's currency and the amount you owe them. We convert it at today's Central Bank selling rate.

To the supplier
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To the trading house
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Fixed fee
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VAT 20 %
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Total in Turkish lira—

Indicative, at today's Central Bank selling rate. The trading house confirms its rate in its offer.

No title taken

We are not a party to your purchase. The contracts are between you and the house, and the house and the factory.

One fee, only on a deal

A fixed ₺2,000 plus KDV per contract, and only when you sign with a company we brought you. Searching costs nothing.

No funds held

Every payment goes from you to the house, and from the house to the factory. None of it passes through us.

Why this is hard

Five ways an import goes wrong, and none of them is the price of the goods

Every one of these has an answer: a trade deal, or a single service. You decide which ones are your problem.

  1. 01

    You found a supplier. You cannot tell whether it is a factory.

    A good website, a long catalogue and a confident sales manager cost less than a single loom. Half the companies quoting you resell someone else's line, and the half that do not may still be unable to hold your volume.

    S4 · Supplier verification — registration, finances, export record, capacity
  2. 02

    The advance leaves and there is nothing holding it.

    Thirty per cent to a company you have never stood inside, in a country whose courts you will never use over that amount. The risk is not fraud so much as an ordinary factory having an ordinary bad quarter.

    Trade deal · you pay a company in Türkiye, in Turkish lira; the payment abroad is the house's
  3. 03

    The cost at your warehouse is not the cost in the quote.

    Duty, KDV, KKDF on deferred payment, surveillance minimums, anti-dumping, freight, demurrage, correspondent bank charges. Any one of them can turn the cheaper factory into the dearer one.

    S1 · Import feasibility & tariff check — before you commit, not after
  4. 04

    Five counterparties, and not one of them answers for the whole.

    Factory, forwarder, insurer, broker, bank. Each is right about its own part while the shipment as a whole is late, and the coordination that nobody is paid for is yours.

    Trade deal · one counterparty in Türkiye, one deal page for every document, one manager to call
  5. 05

    The documents arrive wrong and the goods stop at the border.

    A tick box on a certificate of origin, a description that does not match the packing list, a safety sheet in the wrong language. Days on the quay, and the duty exemption you were counting on gone.

    S11 · Document pre-check — read as customs will read it, before loading

  6. None of this needs an import department.

    It needs somebody on your side of the table who does it for a living. That is the entire proposition.

    See how it works →
How it works

Your factory abroad. A company in Türkiye. Your price in Turkish lira.

A verified trading house signs with your factory on your terms and sells you the same goods in Turkish lira. Your specification, your shipment and your broker stay as they are; the payment abroad becomes the house's.

What it costs
One fee
— of the contract value, our one fee

Plus KDV, invoiced once when the house countersigns. Nothing before.

Price your deal →
No source yet

Find me a supplier

Tell us the specification, the volume and when you need it. Trading houses quote, we compare the offers and go through them with you.

You already buy abroad

I have a factory

Upload the contract you already have. We find a house to step in between, so you pay a company in Türkiye, in Turkish lira, instead of wiring money out.

  1. 01 · Request

    Tell us what you need

    A sourcing request, or the contract you already have. Houses are asked about the goods and the volume only; your price and your file go to one house, after you accept its offer.

  2. 02 · Offer

    A trading house takes it

    The same contract, split in two: the house buys on your terms and invoices you the same goods in Turkish lira. You see the amount and the rate, and accept or decline.

  3. 03 · Introduction

    The house meets your factory

    You send a short introduction from your own mailbox and the factory agrees to receive payment from the house. For a sourcing request, you choose from the compared offers instead.

  4. 04 · Contract

    Sign in Turkish lira

    Same goods, same price, same dates: only the counterparty and the currency change. You sign, the house countersigns, and our one fee falls due.

  5. 05 · Payment

    Pay a company in Türkiye

    The Turkish lira amount is fixed at the day's rate and held for a payment window. You transfer to the house's account; the house pays the factory.

  6. 06 · Shipment

    Shipment and documents

    Your booking and your broker, as they always were. Every document lands on your deal page as it arrives, and you are told each time.

  7. 07 · Closed

    Receive and close

    Confirm the weight and the shade off the truck, rate the house, and order again on the same terms when you need to.

One rule keeps it fair: if, within twelve months of an introduction, you sign a contract with a company we introduced — through the platform or outside it — the same fee applies on that contract.

Single services & prices

Single services

One thing checked, and nothing else. Order a service on its own, alongside a deal or without one: a report and one invoice, at the price fixed when you order.

Fees are invoiced in Turkish lira, KDV 20 % on top. Premiums, freight, duties and broker charges pass through at cost, shown open-book.

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Deal

A trade deal is not on this list

It has one fee on the contract value, invoiced when the trading house countersigns.

Sample prices — for discussion, not a published tariffNeed one of these on its own?
Build your quote — interactive

Build your quote

Your contract value, where it ships from and when you pay. A trading house buys from your factory and sells you the same goods in lira; we charge one fee.

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How the price is made
  1. A trading house contracts your factory on your terms and invoices you the same goods in lira.
  2. We charge one fee: — of the contract value, plus KDV, invoiced once when the house countersigns.
  3. Freight, duty, KKDF and the port are what any import pays; the block on the right estimates them.
Whose side we are on

We work for the buyer.

We are not a party to your purchase. The contract is between you and the trading house, and between the house and your factory. We find the house, check it and keep the deal moving; your manager answers for the whole of it.

Our fee is charged to you, in the open: a fixed ₺2,000 per contract plus KDV, invoiced separately once both sides have signed. If no deal is signed, you owe us nothing.

Goods — from the factory, under the house's contract, to you
FactoryYours, abroad
The house pays the factory
Trading houseContracts the factory on your terms
You pay the house, in Turkish lira
BuyerYou
KervanBeside the deal, not in it: finds and checks the house, organises the deal, one fee from you

Title

Passes from the factory to the house and from the house to you. It never touches our balance sheet: we take no title to the goods.

Fee

One fee, from you, at the official rate of the day both sides signed. Searching, checking and comparing cost nothing.

Funds

Go from you to the house's own account, in its name, confirmed with its bank. We hold nothing on account, ever.

Your trading-house partner

The right connection changes the whole deal.

Kervan helps you find a high-grade, verified trading house and brings the moving parts of your import together.

01

Find the right fit

Access trading houses in Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, the UAE, Oman, the EU, the USA and India. We help match your sourcing needs with the right partner.

02

Know your counterparty

Verification helps you understand who you are buying from. Agree the scope, commercial terms and responsibilities before moving forward.

03

Bring the deal together

The offer, the contract in lira, the payment window and every document on one deal page. Add inspection, insurance or freight as single services when you need them.

Start a deal →
Landed cost calculator

What it actually costs on your floor

No account, no e-mail. The estimate below is the same arithmetic our people do on the first call — including the two lines almost nobody budgets for.

An estimate, not a ruling. The duty rate depends on the exact classification, and that is what S1 is for.

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Twelve broad groups. We map yours to a heading and tell you which one.

Nothing you type here is stored unless you ask us to turn it into a request.

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Corridors and base

Four directions we know well enough to argue about

Not a map of everywhere. These are the routes where we know the paperwork, the ports, the usual tricks and roughly what a factory should be charging.

Registered
Istanbul Financial Center
Kervan İthalat İhracat A.Ş.
Ümraniye, Istanbul
  1. 01

    China

    The deepest supplier base and the most ways to buy the wrong thing. Trading companies presenting as factories, minimum orders that appear after the quote, and surveillance values that turn a cheap invoice into an expensive declaration.

    Ningbo · Shanghai · Qingdao · Xiamen
    28–42 days to İzmir or Mersin
  2. 02

    European Union

    Dearer per unit and frequently cheaper on the floor: the customs union means no duty with an A.TR, two weeks by road, and small reorders that do not need a container. The document that makes it work is the one most often filled in wrongly.

    Road through Bulgaria · Trieste and Koper by sea
    10–18 days, no duty with correct papers
  3. 03

    Americas

    Raw materials, polymers, metals and timber, where the question is rarely the factory and almost always the payment route and the screening. We run both before anyone agrees a price, and we say no when the answer is no.

    Los Angeles and Santos ports
    Screened at every payment, without exception
  4. 04

    Africa

    Agricultural goods and minerals inbound, Turkish manufactured goods outbound. Long documentation chains, real counterparty risk, and pre-shipment inspection that is not optional however good the relationship looks.

    Alexandria · Lagos · Mombasa
    Inspection before payment as standard

More than thirty years

The people here have been doing this since before the container terminals were privatised. That is not a slogan — it is why a quote from Ningbo reads differently to us than it does to you.

Turkish company, Turkish rules

A Turkish joint-stock company acting for Turkish buyers under Turkish law, with the tax, the accounting and the audit that go with it. Your contract is enforceable in the courts you already use.

Where we do not go

Anywhere our screening cannot clear a counterparty or a payment route. There is no version of this business where a deal is worth the licence it costs us.

Governance

Three questions your lawyer will ask, answered before they do

  1. 01

    What exactly are we agreeing to?

    One platform agreement, signed once by a person named in your signature circular. It is not a contract of sale and it commits you to no deal.

    • We find and check the house and organise the deal
    • We are not a party to your purchase and take no title to the goods
    • Our fee arises only when you sign with a company we brought you

    Each deal is signed by you and the house. Nothing in the agreement lets us sign for you.

  2. 02

    Where does our money go?

    Straight to the trading house, in lira, to the account named on your deal. The house pays the factory. None of it passes through us.

    • The lira amount is fixed at the day's rate and held for a payment window
    • The account is the house's own, in its name, confirmed with its bank before any deal
    • If the window passes, the amount is fixed again before you pay

    Our fee is invoiced separately in lira with KDV, and paid separately. It is never part of what you pay the house.

  3. 03

    What happens to our data and our drawings?

    Handled under KVKK with a written notice and a separate, refusable consent for anything that crosses a border. Refusing the cross-border consent limits which corridors we can work for you, and we will say which.

    • Your file goes to one house, and only after you accept its offer; until then houses see the goods and the volume
    • Contracts kept ten years, screening logs eight, as the law requires
    • Drawings deleted on request once the deal is closed

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Entity
Kervan İthalat İhracat A.Ş.Registered in Istanbul
Acting as
A platform that finds and organisesnot a party to your purchase
Not acting as
A seller, a bank, a payment institution,a customs broker or an insurer

Customs clearance is done by a licensed broker in direct representation, and insurance is placed through a licensed broker. We coordinate both; we are neither.

Start

Two ways in. The short one costs $200 and commits you to nothing.

A person reads both of these, not a form robot. You will hear back within four business hours.

Try us with one thingFour fields

Order a single service

Have a supplier checked, a tariff confirmed, a lot inspected. No account, no deal, none of your money through us — a report and one invoice.

We confirm the price and the date before any work starts. Report in 3–5 working days.

The whole purchaseSix fields

Start a deal

Tell us what you are buying in your own words. We come back with what we understood and the way in: a trading house for the factory you have, or a search for one — or a straight answer that this one is not worth doing.

Nothing is committed by sending this. Searching costs nothing. Our fee arises only if you sign with a company we bring you.

Rather talk first? +90 216 232 46 61 · info@kervan-trade.com · Istanbul Financial Center, Ümraniye

We answer in Turkish and English.