Let the list run across both columns
On the only figures available here — mirror figures, added up from what everyone else recorded as shipments in 2024, not from a customs statement — chocolate came to 8,665,399 US dollars and sugar confectionery to 7,171,892. Türkiye sits sixth in both, at roughly 6.32 and 4.05 per cent.
As a purchasing instruction: neither column is the small one, so a first load need not choose. Draw the list across both and weight it by what your shelf already turns over.
Which lines go on the list
The range is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars; a first list normally draws from several. Measured search gives no help with demand: 318 English phrases left five above a twenty-a-month threshold, about 210 a month; 647 French phrases left one, at 20. None was buying language.
The surviving words show vocabulary: éclairs at 90 a month, pain au chocolat at 30, baklava spelled three ways at 30 each, and in French a phrase about wedding guests.
Format is its own row, and it moves the price
Line and format are two decisions taken in that order. The same product exists as a bulk carton, a kilo bag for a counter, a printed retail box for a shelf, and a jar where the product is a spread.
Each format carries its own case weight, minimum and lead time, so each sits on a separate row rather than inside one price per kilo. Colour belongs there too: a dragée colour is a production run, so the minimum per colour is written down before the order, not after it.
The road after the port decides what shares the box
There is no seaboard here: the container is discharged at a coastal port and finishes inland by road, which makes temperature a loading decision, not a shipping detail. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer for the sea leg through the warm months; Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry beside them.
Tell us before we quote whether that last leg is cooled. Where a line must survive ambient conditions a vegetable-fat coating is often the honest answer; it is then named a compound on the data sheet and on the pack. In the European Union it may not be labelled chocolate at all.
What the carton says, and who answers for it
The panel carries the mandatory information in French, with English beside it where your shelf wants it: the name of the food, the ingredients with allergens, net weight in metric, the importer’s name and address, the date marking. For own-label lines the content comes from our technical data sheet, and nothing is printed before you approve it.
The document file travels the same route. The offer names the port of discharge, the inland leg, the transit papers and where the goods are entered, with the origin document and the rules as they apply on the day. Certificates are issued for our factory; the importer of record files the entry.
Confirm these, and the container gets built
A short list settles the load: the lines you want priced, the format for each, an indicative quantity, the delivery point — the port you use and the town the goods reach — and whether the pack keeps our standard pack or carries your brand. Name the importer of record too.
What comes back is written, line by line: price, case weight, lead time and delivery term for each. Terms are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; Mersin is about three hours from our factory by road. Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, cocoa, raw nuts, halva, tahini and baklava sit outside the range, sourced on request once composition and format are confirmed. Send thelist, and the mixed container is built from it.
We are landlocked. Does that change how the container is loaded?
It changes the planning more than the loading. The box is discharged at a port on the coast and finishes inland by road across a border, so the offer names the port of discharge, the inland leg, the transit papers and where the goods are entered, and your clearing agent confirms what applies on the day. The road leg also decides temperature: chocolate goes in a reefer through the warm months, while Turkish delight, dragées and jellies ride dry beside it.
Should a first container lean towards chocolate or towards confectionery?
On the 2024 mirror figures neither one dominates: chocolate came to 8,665,399 US dollars and sugar confectionery to 7,171,892, with Türkiye sixth in both at roughly 6.32 and roughly 4.05 per cent. Because the two columns are almost the same size, a first load is better drawn across both and weighted by what your own shelf already turns over. One container carries the two, so the decision is not made in advance.
What do you need from us before you can quote?
The product references, the format for each line, an indicative quantity, the delivery point — the port you use and the town the goods finally reach — the importer of record named on the pack, and whether the label keeps our standard pack or carries your brand. Tell us as well whether the last leg to your warehouse is cooled. The answer comes back in writing, line by line, with.
