Whose bookkeeping this actually is
A mirror table is somebody else’s accounting. What every exporting country recorded as a shipment here is added up, and the total stands in for a statement nobody published. The arithmetic is sound; the coverage is not. A partner reporting late, partially or not at all drops out, and every share in the table moves with it.
So read what follows as a direction of travel rather than a settled number: we publish it because it changes what this page can honestly claim, not because it is exact.
The chocolate column, and a question already answered
Chocolate comes to 2,232,161 US dollars. It is the smaller of the two columns, and Türkiye already holds most of it — roughly 65.08 per cent, with Egypt at 11.3 and India at 5.0 behind.
That figure settles the argument a supplier page normally makes. Origin separates nobody on this shelf. If Turkish chocolate is what already arrives, the open questions are narrower and more useful: which line, in which format and case weight, under whose label, and how much of the deal is written down before money moves.
The sweet column, and the length of the chain
Sugar confectionery is the larger column by a wide margin — 10,827,884 US dollars — and almost all of it arrives from one distant direction: India at about 90.1 per cent, Türkiye second at 4.53, Egypt third at 4.1.
That is a full shelf and we will not call it empty. What it describes is a chain: nine tenths of the sweets sold here travel one long route, bought, handled and sold on before reaching your warehouse. The question is not the price on the carton but how many hands stand in front of it.
Why one market produces two opposite tables
Part of the reason is physical. Turkish delight, dragées, hard and chewy confectionery and jellies travel dry and take heat and a long road leg without complaint. Chocolate does not. It wants temperature control, which shortens the list of origins willing to send it and rewards one that keeps the leg short.
The rest is how each is bought. Chocolate is a brand decision on a small shelf; sugar confectionery is a format and price decision on a large one — and format is exactly what a distant single source decides for you.
The leg the table cannot see
Neither column records how any of it arrives. There is no coastline, so no sea leg ends here: a container is discharged at a port in a neighbouring country and finishes overland, moving under a transit procedure before it is entered for home use.
It bends the table as well: goods cleared into the neighbouring country first can be booked against it rather than against where they were going, which understates an inland market. It is also why the offer names the port of discharge, the border crossing assumed for the inland leg, and where our responsibility ends.
Turning a column into an order
A table this size carries a planned load rather than a standing monthly programme. One container can mix chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars from our own factory on one order and one document set, the minimum set per line rather than per container (mixed container).
Send the references you want priced, the format and case weight for each, an indicative quantity and where the container should be handed over. The offer comes back line by line: ingredients and allergens, net weight, case and pallet data, lead time and delivery term. Terms are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP — Mersin is about three hours from our factory by road (how we work).
Türkiye already holds most of the chocolate column. What is left to decide?
Not the origin — that is settled, and we will not pretend otherwise. What is still open is the part the table never shows: which lines, in which format and case weight, under whose label, and how much of the offer exists on paper before the money moves. One container can carry chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars from our own factory on one order, with price, case weight,lead time and delivery term written per line.
Nine tenths of the sweet column comes from one distant origin. Can you supply that side?
Partly, and we would rather be exact than eager. Dragées, coated nuts, Turkish delight and wrapped confectionery are in the range and are quoted per line. Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini and baklava sit outside it: sourced on request, with composition and format confirmed before quoting.
How firm are the figures on this page?
They are mirror figures for 2024 and we label them as such, because Chad does not report its own imports. The 2,232,161 US dollars of chocolate and the 10,827,884 of sugar confectionery are what the rest of the world recorded as exports here, so a partner reporting late or partially moves every share in the table. With no coastline, a consignment entered in a neighbouring country first can also be credited to it rather than here. Read the ranking as a direction, not a settled total.
