Whose accounting this actually is
A mirror table is assembled from other people’s books. It stands in for a statement this market never issued. The arithmetic is sound; the coverage is not.
A partner that reports late, partially or not at all drops out, and every share moves with it. A second limit: a mirror entry names whoever filed the export declaration. That is the point of dispatch, which need not be the place of manufacture.
The chocolate column, where the origin is already settled
Chocolate comes to 12,427,589 US dollars. Zambia heads it at 25.4 per cent, Belgium follows at 16.0 and South Africa at 12.8. Türkiye is fourth, at roughly 9.15 per cent.
Fourth place changes the conversation before it begins. You are not being asked to test an unfamiliar origin: product from Türkiye already crosses this border in a volume your clearing agent can check. What stays open is narrower: which line, at what case weight, whose name goes on the wrapper, and how much of the deal exists on paper.
The sweet column, much the larger and nearly closed to us
Sugar confectionery comes to 55,242,642 US dollars, far the bigger of the pair, and here Türkiye sits twelfth at roughly 0.23 per cent. Zambia takes 41.6 per cent, India 19.3 and Kenya 17.6.
That figure will not be turned into a growth story here. You already have a working route for hard sweets, toffees, jellies and chewy lines, and an offer from here is an addition to it, not a replacement. Which is why the sensible test is a few pallets inside a container otherwise filled with lines you move every week.
One neighbour at the head of both lists
The same country stands first in each column: 25.4 per cent of the chocolate and 41.6 of the confectionery. Kenya at 17.6 and South Africa at 12.8 sit in the top three as well, so most of this shelf is recorded as arriving from within the region.
Since a mirror entry records dispatch rather than manufacture, a neighbour heading a column usually means somebody bought and re-sold the load before it reached your border. That is a chain, not a complaint — but every hand in it is priced into the carton, and each one settles a format or a lead time that you did not.
The two entries from off the continent
Only two of the six leading sources sit outside the region: Belgium at 16.0 per cent of the chocolate and India at 19.3 of the confectionery. Both arrive over a long sea leg with consolidation somewhere along it.
Worth holding in mind when a quotation loaded at origin is set beside them: the comparison people reach for is price per carton, while the difference that matters is the number of steps. A container filled in the city where it is made, on your order, keeps the format and the case weight yours to choose.
Turning two columns into one load
This table argues for one planned load rather than a standing monthly programme: chocolate, where the origin needs no defending, and a small tested block of confectionery beside it. One container mixes chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars from our own factory on one order and one document set, with the minimum set per line (mixed container).
Send the references you want priced, the format and case weight for each, an indicative quantity and the delivery point. The offer returns 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).
How firm are the figures on this page?
Directionally useful, not exact, and you should hear that from us rather than discover it. This market does not report its own imports, so the 12,427,589 US dollars of chocolate and the 55,242,642 of sugar confectionery are mirror figures for 2024: what every other country recorded as shipments here, added together. A partner reporting late or partially moves every share in the table, and a mirror entry records where a consignment was dispatched from rather than where it was made.
Türkiye is fourth in chocolate but twelfth in confectionery. What is actually being proposed?
Two different things, kept separate rather than blurred. On chocolate, at roughly 9.15 per cent, origin is not the open question — the questions are which line, which format, whose label and what is written down. On sugar confectionery, at roughly 0.23 per cent, ours is the untried option, so the first step is a few pallets inside a container mostly filled with lines you already sell.
Can you supply couverture, baklava or tahini alongside the finished lines?
Not as part of the range, and it is better to be exact than eager. The range is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars. Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging are sourced on request: we confirm composition and format before quoting. A coating made with vegetable fat is named ascompound on the pack, the technical data sheet and the price list, never as chocolate, and certificates are issued for our factory.
