Mobiliario Hostelería from Turkey: Hotel Furniture for Spain

Spanish hotel owners, restaurant groups and general contractors can source guestroom furniture, beds, wardrobes, restaurant seating and joinery from Turkey with no duty. In Spanish the search is mobiliario hostelería: the chairs, tables, stools and fixed seating of bars, restaurants and hotels. Rovers takes the whole package: it reads the BOQ (mediciones) and the drawings, prices every line with the Turkish partner factory that fits, issues shop drawings and samples for approval, follows production, inspects before packing, delivers to site and installs.

Duty, IVA and deferral

Item	What applies	Source
Customs duty, wooden furniture (9403 50, 9403 60)	0% third-country rate; 0% under the customs union	EU tariff (TARIC) via UK Trade Tariff XI view
Customs duty, upholstered seats with wooden frames (9401 61)	0% third-country rate; 0% under the customs union	Same
Proof of free circulation	A.TR movement certificate, issued by Turkish customs at export	European Commission, Access2Markets
Import IVA	21% general rate	Ley 37/1992, art. 90 (BOE)
IVA diferido	A monthly filer can put the import IVA in its own periodic return in place of paying it at customs	Reglamento del IVA, art. 74.1 a) (BOE)

The deferral is opted into with a census declaration filed with the Agencia Tributaria in November, and takes effect from the next calendar year. It then covers every import the business makes. Giving it up is also done in November and holds for at least three years (Reglamento del IVA, art. 74). Other lines (metal frames, lighting, mattresses, textiles) have their own codes and are checked one by one on the quote.

Fire rules in the building code (CTE DB-SI)

The CTE’s fire document, DB-SI, sorts buildings by use. Hotels, hostales and tourist apartments are Residencial Público. Bars, cafeterías, restaurants and multi-use halls in hotels and congress buildings are listed under Pública concurrencia (SI 3, table 2.1). Section SI 1 §4 then sets what furniture and finishes must meet:

What we supply	DB-SI requirement	Where it applies
Fixed upholstered seats in cinemas, theatres, auditoria, assembly halls	Pass UNE-EN 1021-1 (cigarette) and UNE-EN 1021-2 (match flame)	Pública concurrencia buildings and establishments (§4.4 a)
Curtains, drapes, stage curtains	Class 1 under UNE-EN 13773	Pública concurrencia (§4.4 b)
Wall and ceiling panelling	C-s2,d0 in occupied zones; B-s1,d0 in protected corridors and stairs	All uses, once linings pass 5% of the walls, ceilings or floors of the space (table 4.1)
Floor finishes	EFL in occupied zones; CFL-s1 in protected corridors and stairs	Same

The §4.4 tests are written for Pública concurrencia buildings and establishments, the use DB-SI’s occupancy table lists bars, cafeterías and restaurants under. For a hotel, the fire design decides whether its restaurant or function rooms are treated as that use. DB-SI sets no upholstery test for the guestrooms. In a restaurant, §4.4 names the curtains; its seat test covers fixed seats in halls, and loose dining chairs are not named.

Room furniture: a regional rule (Madrid example)

Hotel classification in Spain is set by each autonomous community, so there is no national furniture list. The Comunidad de Madrid’s decree 19/2023, in force since 23 March 2023, is one current example. Its article 35.2 sets the minimum in every bedroom, for all categories:

Decree 19/2023, art. 35.2	Requirement	What we build
Bed, double room	One double 1.35 × 1.90 m, or two singles 0.90 × 1.90 m	Bed base and headboard sized to the mattress
Bed, single-use room	One bed 0.90 m wide	Same
Bedside	One or two bedside tables, or an equivalent	Freestanding unit or headboard shelf
Seat and desk	An armchair or chair, and a table or desk	Desk or wall-hung counter and chair
Wardrobe	A wardrobe or an equivalent	Wardrobe, open rail unit or niche joinery
Reading light	One or two bedside lamps, or an equivalent	Wired into the headboard panel

Articles 22 to 26 set the room areas: a double room is 17 m² at 5 stars, 16 m² at 4, 15 m² at 3, 14 m² at 2 and 12 m² at 1, and 5- and 4-star rooms carry a safe and a minibar. We draw the furniture plan against those areas before pricing. A hotel in another community gets its own region’s list checked the same way.

Ro-ro through Sète, sea to Valencia, or road

Route	How it runs	Planning figure
Ro-ro and road	Trailer ferried from Yalova to Sète, then driven over the border into Spain	About 80 hours at sea, 5 sailings a week (DFDS)
Ro-ro from İzmir	Same, from the Aegean	Weekly (DFDS)
Container	Ambarlı (Istanbul) to Valencia, then truck	About 12 days 11 hours, 1–2 sailings a week (Fluent Cargo, market data)
Full truck	Factory to site by road	About 3,286 km Istanbul to Valencia (Fluent Cargo, market data)

DFDS lists Spain among the markets Sète serves. A large single delivery goes by container; phased work goes by trailer, one floor or one room type per load.

Board emissions

We check each board’s test report against the EU formaldehyde limit before production: from 6 August 2026, furniture and wood-based articles placed on the EU market must not release more than 0.062 mg/m³ (Regulation (EU) 2023/1464).

Lead time and documents

Lead time is counted from approved shop drawings and samples. Each shipment travels with a commercial invoice and packing list (one line per item code, room type and floor), the A.TR, a CMR note by road or a bill of lading by sea, and the fire test reports for each curtain and fixed-seat line. The Spanish importer’s EORI number goes on the customs declaration.

What to send us

Send the mediciones or BOQ, the drawings, the hotel’s category and autonomous community, the operator’s brand standard if there is one, the site address and the date the rooms or the restaurant must be ready. A typical room plan and a room count are enough for a first priced schedule.

Sources

Hotel and restaurant furniture from Turkey for Spain: mobiliario hostelería to the room rules