Two headings, and where the numbers come from
Two categories are in play: chocolate and chocolate preparations, and sugar confectionery — jellies, hard candy, toffees, dragées and wrapped sweets. For 2024 the first is declared at 3,317,819 US dollars and the second at 2,922,940, so the two halves of the shelf are close in size.
These are entries made at this country’s own border posts, not a mirror reading assembled from what other countries said they shipped. That is firmer ground than most of what circulates for the region, and it fixes the limits: one year, one set of headings, one description per consignment; goods entered under another heading are invisible to it.
One name stands at the top of the chocolate column
Sorted by origin, chocolate is close to a single entry: South Africa at about 80.8 per cent, Zambia at about 15.3 per cent, Egypt third at about 2.2 per cent. Very little is left behind them.
Türkiye sits sixth on the same table at about 0.4 per cent. Small, and there is no point dressing it up. What it is not is zero: goods already move from Türkiye under this heading, so the route, the documents and the entry are in use — a lane with room left on it.
The confectionery column reverses the order
Sugar confectionery rearranges the same names. Zambia takes about 78.0 per cent, South Africa about 17.2 per cent, and third place is not a country at all but a residual grouping at about 3.9 per cent, used when an origin is not separately stated.
Türkiye does not appear here at all — the more useful of the two readings. The confectionery half of your shelf, dragées, jellies, Turkish delight and wrapped lines, carries no Turkish entry to compare a quotation against.
A source column records dispatch, not manufacture
Both tables are led by neighbours, and Zimbabwe has no coastline: every carton counted in them crossed a land border by truck, whatever ocean it crossed first. A source column records where a consignment was declared as coming from, not where the goods were made.
Some of what arrives from a neighbour was made there. Some was discharged at a regional port, bought by a distributor, warehoused, re-invoiced and driven on — each step a margin and a week. Your supplier can say where a carton was made, and that answer decides what a direct container is worth.
The demand side will not fill the gap in the table
The English search channel was measured over two rounds above a twenty-a-month threshold: of 1,994 raw phrases, 28 cleared it, worth about 1,650 searches a month. The wholesale, import and distributor part of that is zero.
What people type is eating, not buying: the pistachio-filled style known as Dubai chocolate at about 210 a month and the same words shortened at another 210, baklava spelled by ear at 110 and again at 110, eclairs at 90, profiteroles at 70. A shelf signal, not a map of the trade.
Turning two columns into a price list
A table shows where the risk sits, not what a carton costs. That takes a list: the lines you want priced — chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery, spreads in jars — the format for each, an indicative quantity and the border post you clear at.
The answer comes back line by line: specification, allergens, net weight, case and pallet figures, delivery term. We quote FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; Mersin is about three hours from our factory by road.A vegetable-fat coating is called a compound, never chocolate — in the European Union it may not be labelled as chocolate. Certificates are issued for our factory. Couverture, bulk chocolate bythe kilo, raw nuts and baklava sit outside the range: sourced on request, composition and format confirmed before quoting. Send the list; one container can mix as many lines as youlike.
Are these official figures, or an estimate?
They are this country’s own declarations for 2024: 3,317,819 US dollars of chocolate and 2,922,940 US dollars of sugar confectionery. That is firmer than a mirror reading taken from what other countries say they shipped. Read them for shape rather than for scale — a declaration table covers one year and one set of tariff headings, and it is closed before anyone can read it.
Almost the whole shelf arrives from two neighbours. Why look at an origin further away?
Not to replace those sources but to sit beside them. About 80.8 per cent of declared chocolate comes from one neighbour and about 78.0 per cent of declared sugar confectionery from the other, both by road. A direct container shortens the chain between the producer and your warehouse and adds a line that does not depend on those two crossings. Whether it also beats your landed cost is a question for the offer, not for a web page.
There is no port here. How would a container actually arrive?
It is discharged at a port on the regional coast, then moves inland under transit to the border post, where your clearing agent makes the entry. The offer names the port, the route, the delivery term and the point of entry, and states the origin document with what applies on the day; your agent confirms that at entry. Chocolate lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months while Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry, and both can share one container.
