Automotive sector made the most exports in September

According to the data of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM), the automotive industry, one of the industrial group sectors, maintained its first place by exporting 3 billion 940 million dollars in September.

Among the sectors that exported the most, chemicals and products ranked second with 3 billion 68 million dollars, and the electrical and electronics sector ranked third with 2 billion 63 million dollars.

The sector that provided the highest export increase last month was jewelery with 203.3 percent. September exports of this sector increased to 1 billion 512 million dollars.

The foreign sales of the industrial group, which realizes 72.5 percent of Türkiye's exports, exceeded 18.8 billion dollars with an increase of 16.8 percent.

Last month, exports of approximately 3.2 billion dollars were made in the agricultural group, which made up 12.3 percent of exports, with an increase of 9.2 percent, and 682.6 million dollars were made in the mining group, which constituted 2.6 percent of exports, with an increase of 24.2 percent.

THE MOST EXPORT WAS TO GERMANY

The top three export countries last month were Germany with approximately 1.87 billion dollars, the USA with 1.46 billion dollars, and the United Kingdom with 1.35 billion dollars.

The top 3 cities with the most exports during this period were Istanbul with 9.54 billion dollars, Kocaeli with approximately 2.2 billion dollars and Ankara with 1.7 billion dollars.

According to TİM data, export data, change rates and shares in the total for September 2025 and 2026 and the last 12 months on a sectoral basis are as follows (thousand dollars):