Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers and wholesalers in Belgium

Six lines, mixed to your list.

Each line travels on its own pallet; the container is mixed. Outside the core range we source on request and load it in the same shipment.

What stays the same on every offer.

Rates and rules change; the quotation states what applies on the day. These points do not change.

Label

Belgium sells in more than one language, and the label follows the region rather than the border: French in Wallonia and Brussels, Dutch in Flanders, German in the eastern communes. Under the EU food information rules the mandatory particulars have to appear in a language easily understood where the product is sold, so a pack meant for the whole country normally carries French and Dutch together, with German added where you sell east. The content itself is the EU set: the ingredient list with allergens emphasised, the nutrition declaration per 100 g, metric net quantity, the best-before date, and the name and EU address of the food business responsible for the product. For private label we prepare that content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork against it before anything is printed.

Customs union and entry

Belgium is in the EU, and Türkiye and the EU are in a customs union: chocolate and confectionery travel with an A.TR movement certificate, and the offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, so the landed cost is known before you order. The importer is the food business responsible for the product on the Belgian market and is registered with the competent authority; where a line contains dairy, as milk chocolate does, the EU rules for composite products apply and the attestation the entry needs is drawn up from our documents. Nothing about rates is printed on this site, because they change.

Dragées de baptême, doopsuiker, suikerbonen

The christening favour is a live channel in both of Belgium’s language communities, and in our range it is the single thing this market searches for most. What the shop sells is a finished favour: a sachet, a tin or a small box, printed with a name and a date, filled with sugared almonds. The printing and the personalisation are Belgian work; the almond inside is bought in. That inside is our end of it — panned sugared almonds and chocolate dragées in single colours, matte or polished, in sachets, tins, window boxes and doypacks, or in bulk cartons for a shop that fills its own. Communions and weddings run the same format on a different calendar. Colours, coating and piece count are stated per line in the offer, and the minimum per line is stated in the offer.

A chocolate country, and what may be called chocolate

Belgian chocolate is a standard rather than a slogan, and we are not selling one back to Belgium. What Gaziantep adds is the pistachio end and the sugar end: the pistachio and kadayıf bar that reached this shelf as chocolat dubai, made where the pistachio grows and the kadayıf is made; pistachio spread in jars, which the shelf often looks for under the word cream, though what is in the jar is a spread; lokum and special lokum; dragées; wrapped sweets. One rule decides the wording on every pack: under the EU cocoa and chocolate rules a coating made with vegetable fat instead of cocoa butter cannot be sold as chocolate. Every line in the offer says which it is, real chocolate or a compound coating, and in this market that is worth settling before the artwork is drawn.

Antwerp, Zeebrugge and the shelf behind them

Two routes, and the offer says which one it quotes: sea freight from Mersin to Antwerp or Zeebrugge, or a road trailer from Gaziantep across Europe. The delivery term, FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP, is stated in the offer. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer for the warm months; Turkish delight, sugared almonds and jellies travel dry. A container that clears at Antwerp is in free circulation in the EU, which is why an importer here is rarely buying for Belgium alone; if the load is meant to break down across the Benelux, say so and the label languages and the pallet plan are written for that from the start.

The oriental shelf, and the wholesale layer next door

Belgium has its own oriental and Turkish grocery layer — shops and small chains in Brussels, Antwerp and Liège, and the online grocers behind them — and it is import-fed rather than made locally. Most lines on this site are available in our standard packs, so a wholesaler can start without artwork. The generic end looks different: search the wholesale sweet words in French and much of what answers is based in France, which is a fair picture of how a good part of that shelf is fed. Ordering a container at origin takes that layer out of the price; what it asks of you instead is a full load and the entry paperwork, which is what this page is about.

What goes in the container

Chocolate, dragées and coated nuts, Turkish delight and special lokum, sugar confectionery, and pistachio products — five groups, each on its own pallet, mixed in one 20 ft or 40 ft load, so a wholesaler can break the load down by product rather than by shipment. Case weight, pieces per case and the pallet plan are stated per line, and the minimum per line is stated in the offer. We photograph the loaded pallets before the doors close. Offers are written in US dollars within two working days of your list; bank transfer only, 50% with the order and 50% before the container leaves, against the loading photographs.

Sourced on request

Outside the core range we hold nothing in stock, but we can buy in what your list needs and load it in the same container: baklava, which is what this market types more than anything else and which mostly reaches it direct from named houses in Türkiye; halva; couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo; pistachio paste by the kilo, which is what a pâtissier means rather than the jar; raw pistachios and bulk nuts; dried fruit; cocoa; and empty packaging. These are sourced on request; we confirm composition and format before quoting.