Two columns, one box
Türkiye already sits fourth on the chocolate column at roughly 9.15 per cent, behind Zambia at 25.4, Belgium at 16.0 and South Africa at 12.8. On sugar confectionery it is twelfth at roughly 0.23 per cent, with Zambia at 41.6, India at 19.3 and Kenya at 17.6 ahead. These are mirror figures — this country does not report its own imports — so read them as a direction, not a settled number.
That asymmetry decides the mix: chocolate as an origin your buyers can already check, confectionery as a few pallets beside lines you already move.
Name the format, not the word
Three measured phrases here are shelf words rather than products, and guessing at them produces the wrong quotation. The largest English one, at about 390 searches a month, is éclairs — a pastry at one counter, a filled chewy sweet by the kilo on a confectionery shelf. A French phrase at about 30 a month asks for a bar in the style associated with Dubai — a format request, not a recipe. The word for dragée runs at about 40.
So the list is written in formats: bar weight and filling, filled chew or wrapped toffee, sheet or cut cube, kilo bag or printed box.
What actually goes in the carton
Every line needs a case behind it: pieces or net weight per carton, cartons per pallet, and the stowage pattern. The minimum is set per line rather than per container, which is the point of mixing: one pallet of something you are testing travels beside ten of something you already sell.
Two exceptions come up early. A dragée colour is a production run, not a stock pick, so its minimum is stated per line — as are printed boxes and own-label wrappers, and nothing prints before you approve the artwork.
Dry and chilled in the same container
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months. Turkish delight, dragées, hard and chewy confectionery and jellies travel dry, and both can share one box. If the inland leg falls in your hottest weeks, say so before the quotation.
The short leg is the predictable one: our factory is in Gaziantep and Mersin port is about three hours away by road.Terms quoted are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; the offer names the term, the port of discharge quoted against, and where responsibility passes.
What the offer states in writing
Per line: the technical data sheet, the ingredient list with allergens, metric net weight, case and pallet data, and the analysis report. Certificates are issued in our factory's name; copies are forwarded and the certifying body named. Lines carrying gelatine travel with our halal certificate, named per line.
Label content is prepared in French,with English alongside where your file wants it. One wording never moves: a coating made with vegetable fat is called a compound on the data sheet, the pack and the price list, never chocolate. European labelling rules forbid it.
Confirm these, then send the list
First, which lines are in the range and which are not. Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini and baklava are sourced on request; composition and format are confirmed before quoting. Fresh bakery a container cannot serve at all — thepastry and croissant phrases in the English count, each about 40 a month, are outside it.
Then the format per line, the case and pallet data, and the origin document and rules, which the offer states as they apply on the day. Send the references you want priced, the format for each, an indicative quantity and the delivery point; the first container comes back priced line by line.
How many different lines can one first container hold?
As many as the pallet count allows, because the minimum is set per line and not per container. That is the practical reason a first order is quoted as a mixed load: chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars can sit in one box on one order and one document set, with each line carrying its own case weight, pallet data and producer name.
Türkiye is fourth in chocolate here but twelfth in confectionery. How should the first box be weighted?
Toward what you already sell, with the untried part kept small. On chocolate, at roughly 9.15 per cent, origin is not the open question — format, case weight, label and what is written down are. On sugar confectionery, at roughly 0.23 per cent, this is the new option on a shelf led by Zambia at 41.6 per cent, so a few pallets inside an otherwise familiar load is the sensible test.
What do you need from me before a container can be priced?
A reference list with the format named per line, an indicative quantity, the delivery point and the delivery term you want compared. Where a name is ambiguous — éclairs, a Dubai-style bar, a dragée colour — describe the format instead of the word, and the matching Gaziantep line is confirmedbefore it is quoted. Anything outside the range is handled as sourced on request.
