The handover point decides the rest
Four delivery terms are quoted, and what separates them matters more than the figure beside them: where the goods stop being ours and become yours. FCA Gaziantep hands them over loaded at origin, leaving road, sea and entry to you. FOB Mersin carries them to the port. CIF adds the sea leg to the port of entry named in the offer.
DAP runs to the delivery point you name — the term to ask for when the warehouse sits inland, since it prices that road leg rather than leaving it a surprise.
The first leg is short, and that is the point
Our factory is in Gaziantep and Mersin port is about three hours away by road. That short legis why a mixed load is consolidated at origin: lines from our own factory arrive into one bay, arechecked against the packing list and go into one box (mixed container).
Temperature is settled in the same offer. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months; Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry, and both share one container, so the state of your last leg decides which lines belong in the box.
A quarter of the sweet shelf came overland
Read the origin columns as a route map, not a league table. Of what Benin declared importing in 2024, 24.8 per cent of the sugar confectionery and 5.3 per cent of the chocolate arrived from an immediate neighbour that is not a confectionery producer of any scale. That reads as goods landed at one port, cleared, sold on and trucked across a border — reads, since the column itself proves neither.
Either way, each extra hand adds a margin, a currency conversion, a second document set and one more version of when the lot was made. Loading at origin removes them.
Who declares what
The entry is national and it is yours. Your clearing agent files it and answers for the description given; no movement document issued for another trading route covers this one. Regional rules change often enough that printing a version here would mislead: the offer names the origin document and the rules valid on the day.
Our side of the file is the same every time: technical data sheet per product, our certificates, the analysis report. Certificates are issued for our factory; copies are passed on and thecertifying body named.
The label is read in French
The mandatory content goes on in French, with English alongside where your shelf wants it: food name, ingredients with allergens, metric net weight, storage conditions, your name and address as importer, the date marking. For own-label lines it is built from the technical data sheet and checked against your artwork before printing.
Two naming rules hold in any language. A vegetable-fat coating is a compound or a glaze on the data sheet, on the pack and in the price list, never chocolate — in the European Union it may not be labelled chocolate at all. The jarred line is a spread.
What to send so the route can be priced
Send the lines you want quoted; the format for each, bulk carton, kilo bag, retail box or jar; an indicative quantity per line; the delivery point, not only the country; whether the last leg is temperature-controlled; and whose brand the pack carries, since nothing prints without approval.
The answer comes back in writing: specification, allergens, net weight, case and pallet data, the minimum per line and the proposed tariff heading, on the term you asked for (how we work). Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, cocoa, halva, tahini and baklava sit outside the range: sourced on request, composition and format confirmed first. Send the list; ask for two terms at once.
Which delivery term should we ask for?
It depends on where you want the risk to change hands. FCA Gaziantep suits a buyer who arranges his own freight; FOB Mersin stops at the port; CIF covers the sea leg to the port of entry named in the offer; DAP runs to the delivery point you name, which is the one to ask for when the warehouse is inland. Ask for the same list on two terms and compare.
Who files the entry, and what travels with the goods?
Your clearing agent files the entry and answers for the description given. From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates, the analysis report per line. Certificates are issued for our factory; the origindocument and the rules that apply are named in the offer in the form valid on the day.
Does the label have to be in French?
The mandatory content is prepared in French, with English alongside where your file or your shelf wants it: food name, ingredients with allergens, metric net weight, storage conditions, the importer’s name and address, and the date marking. For own-label runs the content is drawn from our technical data sheet and checked against your artwork before printing.
