The Gulf label
Arabic on the label, with English alongside if you want it: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens, metric net weight, storage, the importer’s name and address, and the production and expiry dates printed on the pack in production rather than added on a sticker. For lines in our standard packs we confirm what the export pack carries before the deposit; for private label we prepare the content from our data sheet and you approve the artwork before printing. The Qatari private label page goes through it.
Halal, line by line
Lines with ingredients of animal origin, gelatine in jellies above all, travel with our halal certificate, and the offer names the certifying body per line so the importer can check that the Qatari authority recognises it before ordering. Lines without such ingredients are stated as such on the data sheet. Where a certificate is asked for that we do not hold, the offer says so before the deposit, not after the container has sailed.
Who holds what, and the duty
The importer holds the commercial registration and the food-control registration, and clears the consignment at Hamad Port, where the food control section checks it. As the Turkish producer we do not register in Qatar; we supply the data sheet, our certificates and the analysis report per line. Qatar applies the Gulf common customs tariff and there is no free trade agreement with Türkiye; the offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, and nothing about duty is printed on this site.
Documents, the route and the reefer
The commercial set is the invoice, the packing list per pallet, the certificate of origin, the analysis report and, for pistachio lines, an aflatoxin certificate, listed on the how we work page, with the halal certificates per line where they apply. Sea freight from Mersin to Hamad Port, with the transshipment port and the transit stated in the offer. Chocolate lines are quoted in a reefer year round; dry lines travel dry. The mixed-container page explains how the load is built.
The timeline
Label and certificates first, then the deposit, then production, then the reefer. An importer that has cleared our lines once clears the next lines faster, because the data sheets, the halal certificates and the label content are already on file. Because the label content is settled before the deposit, we print the dates at the run and the pack that leaves Mersin is the pack that goes on the shelf, with no relabelling at the port; that is the single largest saving on this route, and the reason the label comes first in this article. The Qatar page lists what stays the same on every offer.
How to start
A first message is short: references from the product pages, quantities, port. The offer that comes back is not — it carries the specification, the pallet plan and the minimum, line by line.
Samples are free from our running production and the courier is paid before dispatch. The qatar: what stays the same on every offer page lists what stays the same on every offer, and the private label page covers putting your own name on the pack.
Does the Turkish producer register in Qatar?
No. The importer holds the commercial and food-control registrations; we supply the data sheet, certificates and analysis report per line, named in the offer.
Can the dates go on a sticker?
No. Production and expiry dates are printed on the pack in production, as the Gulf standard asks; the label content per line is confirmed before the deposit.
Is the container a reefer?
For chocolate lines, yes, year round on this route. Dry lines travel dry; a mixed load is quoted as the offer states.
