Two columns, two different questions
In sugar confectionery the same signature shows from a stronger position: Turkey is 10th with 2.23% of the market, at 4.24 $/kg. Both tables describe a trade that is small and expensive rather than large and cheap.
That matters when you plan a first container. A supplier taking everyday tablet volume leaves the opposite trace — a bigger share at a lower price per kilo. What already moves into Slovakia is the narrow end, bought for what it is rather than for where it sits on a price list.
The lines that sit at that end
So those are the lines worth quoting first: whole-pistachio and double-roasted lokum, the kadayıf-wrapped lines, the pistachio-and-kadayıf dubai-style bar, and chocolate dragées sorted by colour and calibre for gift and event work.
Plain lokum travels in bulk cases and in retail boxes; chocolate-coated nut and fruit centres and the pistachio jar sit beside them. Commodity tablets are a different trade, run on freight distance and scale — not the door these two columns point at.
The minimum is per line, not per container
We sell a full container or a full truck; there is no part load. But the minimum that shapes your order is per line — set per line and written next to that line in the offer, not one figure for the whole container. That is what lets a first shipment carry six or seven items in measured quantities.
Each line rides its own pallet, under one packing list and one movement certificate. Slovakia is in the EU, and under the customs union these lines move with an A.TR movement certificate. The tariff position is quoted line by line, and the quotation states what applies on the day it is issued.
Temperature decides which month you load
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines travel at +18/+20 °C, so in hot months a reefer is offered. If a dry container is preferred, the temperature risk passes to the buyer in writing, before loading — not discovered at the unloading dock. Lokum, sugared almond dragées and jellies travel dry all year.
A summer order therefore has two shapes: lead with the dry lines and bring chocolate in cooler weather, or put both in one reefer. The mixed container allows either, because the minimum sits per line.
Spread, glaze, and whose certificate it is
Two naming questions settle more deals here than price does. The jar is a spread — sweetened, for a shelf or a gift pack. It is not a pouring cream and not a 100% pastry paste; that unsweetened pastry material is not in the main range, and is supplied on request only after composition and format are confirmed with the manufacturer.
The second is the coating. One built on vegetable fat cannot be labelled chocolate in the EU — it is a cocoa glaze, and the offer states which of the two each line uses. Labels are prepared from our technical specification, carrying the EU food information particulars in Slovak, and in private label nothing is printed without written approval. Certificates are issued for our factory; copies are available on request.
What to send
Four things. The lines you want, and whether the pistachio jar is meant as a shelf spread or as production material. Your format per line — bulk case or retail box, whose label, and for dragées the colours and calibre. Your delivery point and the month it should arrive, which settles the temperature question. And whether the first container is mixed or single-line.
The written offer follows within two working days, line by line: technical specification, ingredients and allergens, net weight, case and pallet data, minimum and tariff position. Payment is 50% at order and 50% before the container leaves, against loading photographs.
Turkey has under 1% of Slovak chocolate imports — why bother?
Because the second column reads differently. That 0.96% arrives at 13.47 $/kg against a world average near 5.57, and in sugar confectionery Turkey is already 10th with 2.23% at 4.24 $/kg. The volume is small because the lines are narrow and high-value, not because the door is shut.
Is the pistachio jar a paste for pastry work?
No. What we export is a sweetened spread for a retail shelf or a gift pack — a spread, not a cream, and not a 100% pastry paste. The unsweetened pastry material is not in the main range; it is supplied on request, with composition and format confirmed before an offer.
What paperwork applies for a shipment to Slovakia?
Slovakia is an EU member, so under the customs union the goods travel with an A.TR movement certificate, with the tariff position quoted line by line and the quotation stating what applies on the day it is issued. Product certificates are issued for our factory, and copies are available on request.
