The chain
A supermarket, a confectioner, a tourist shop in Valletta or a festa stall buys chocolate and sweets by the carton from a wholesaler; the wholesaler buys by the pallet from an importer, or imports for itself; the importer brings the container into Malta by sea, or the trailer across Europe and the ferry from Italy, under the customs union paperwork. That is the link we quote: a food importer or a wholesale house filling one mixed container from Gaziantep, each line on its own pallet.
What the customs union changes
Malta is in the EU, and Türkiye and the EU are in a customs union: chocolate and confectionery travel with an A.TR movement certificate, and the offer states the tariff line for each product and what applies to its agricultural component on the day. Nothing about duty is printed on this site; the landed cost is in the offer, before the order, and it is a landed cost a supplier outside the union does not have on the same pistachio bar.
The tourist shelf, the supermarket and the festa
The tourist shop and the hotel want the pistachio tablet, the Dubai style bar and the boxed Turkish delight a visitor carries home; the supermarket wants the tablet and the boxed assortment under a Turkish brand; the festa stalls and the village shops want wrapped sweets, jellies and coated nuts by the carton for the summer season; and the wedding trade wants perlini by colour. The chocolate page, the confectionery page and the dragée page list each group.
A small island, a mixed container
A container is a large unit for an island this size, and that is the reason the container is mixed: five product groups on one order, each on its own pallet, so the tourist shelf, the supermarket, the festa stall and the wedding trade share one load. Chocolate lines are quoted in a reefer for the warm months; dragées, jellies and Turkish delight travel dry. The mixed-container page explains how the load is built.
Price, and what is not printed here
The price per line in US dollars, the case count, the pallet plan and the tariff line are in the offer, with what applies to the agricultural component on the day; nothing that moves with the exchange rate or the season is printed on this site, so a wholesaler is never quoting from a number that has since moved.
What to send first
The lines from the chocolate page, the dragée page and the Turkish delight page, the quantity per line, whether you want the load by sea or by road, and whether any line carries your own brand. The written offer follows within two working days, in US dollars and the A.TR paperwork listed; the samples page explains how to taste the lines first, and the Malta page lists what stays the same on every offer.
Can a confectioner or a festa stall buy directly from Türkiye?
The unit of sale is one full container. A shop buys by the carton from the wholesaler that imports it; a group that pools a load and is registered as a food business is quoted like an importer.
Is there duty on sweets from Türkiye?
The goods travel under the customs union with an A.TR certificate; what applies to the agricultural component is stated in the offer for the day.
Is the container a reefer?
For chocolate lines in the warm months, yes. Dry lines travel dry; a mixed load is quoted as the offer states.
