Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in Chad

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.

What the mirror figures say — and what they do not

Chad does not report its own import statistics to the international trade database. The only view available is the mirror: what every other country recorded as exports to Chad, added together. On 2024 mirror data that is about 2,232,161 US dollars of chocolate, with Türkiye first at roughly 65.08 per cent, and about 10,827,884 US dollars of sugar confectionery, with Türkiye second at roughly 4.53 per cent. Read it as a direction, not as a settled number. Two things blur it. A partner that reports late, partially or not at all moves every share in that table, and nobody outside the customs houses knows by how much. And because this market has no coastline, a consignment that arrives overland may be recorded against the country where it first landed rather than against the place it was going. We publish the figures because they change what this page can honestly claim, not because they are exact.

Two columns, two different shelves

The chocolate column is the smaller one and Türkiye already fills most of it — roughly 65.1 per cent, with Egypt at 11.3 and India at 5.0 behind it. On that shelf origin separates nobody, and a page that spends its space arguing for Turkish chocolate here is arguing with an empty room. The sugar confectionery column is several times larger and is fed almost entirely from one distant source, India at roughly 90.1 per cent, with Türkiye second at 4.5 and Egypt at 4.1. Full shelf, long chain. We are not going to tell you the shelf is empty, because it plainly is not. What a second source closer to the producer changes is the number of hands between the factory and your warehouse, the lead time you can plan around, and whether the format and the case weight are yours to choose or somebody else's to decide for you.

Landlocked: the route belongs in the offer

There is no coastline, so nothing arrives by sea at the final destination. A container is discharged at a port in a neighbouring country and completes the journey overland, which means the goods move under a transit procedure before they are entered for home use, and the agent handling that leg matters to the schedule as much as the shipping line does. We do not hide that inside a single word. The offer names the delivery term, the port of discharge we are quoting against, the border crossing assumed for the inland leg, and the point where our responsibility ends and yours begins. Terms quoted are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP. Our factory is in Gaziantep and Mersin port is about three hours away by road, so the part of the journey we control is short and predictable; the part after the port is the part that has to be agreed in writing rather than assumed.

Heat, and the leg after the port

An inland destination means the cargo spends longer between the ship and the shelf than it would in a coastal market, and most of that extra time is spent on a road rather than in a cold store. That changes which lines we recommend for which season, not what we can load. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months. Turkish delight, dragées, hard and chewy confectionery and jellies travel dry and take the journey far better, and dry and chilled lines can still share one container. If the inland leg falls in your hot season, say so before we quote and we build the mix around it rather than explaining it afterwards.

Label, in French

The mandatory information in French, with English or Arabic alongside where your file or the shelf wants it: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens, metric net weight, storage conditions, the importer's name and address, and the date marking. For lines in our standard packs we confirm what the export pack already carries; for own-label lines we prepare the content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork before anything is printed. One discipline we do not bend: a line coated in vegetable fat is named a compound or a glaze on the data sheet, on the pack and in the price list, never chocolate. European labelling rules forbid calling it chocolate, and we keep the two words apart everywhere, including on a pack that will never see Europe — a buyer who finds out the difference at the shelf finds out too late.

The customs file, and what the importer holds

This file is national. The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer, and the offer states what applies on the day rather than this page guessing at it — regional arrangements change, and a figure printed on a web page is out of date before it is read. From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates and the analysis report per line. Certificates are issued for our factory; we name the certifying body and send copies on request instead of describing a document we do not hold. 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. The importer holds the registration, files the consignment and instructs the agent on the transit leg.

The occasion shelf and the wedding trade

The one French phrase that cleared our threshold, at 30 searches a month, is about wedding guests rather than about chocolate. It is a small number and we are not going to inflate it, but it points at the part of the shelf that moves on its own calendar: sugared almonds and chocolate dragées for weddings and births, printed retail boxes, mini-bar assortments and the religious seasons. Seasonal lines are quoted ahead of the season with the lead time stated per line, because a printed colour is a production run and not a stock pick. A first order usually mixes them with the everyday shelf so one container serves both.

Éclairs: name the format before we quote

The single English phrase above our threshold, at 20 searches a month, was the word for éclairs. It is a shelf word rather than one product, and it does not map onto a single item: at a pastry counter it means one thing, and on a wrapped confectionery shelf across much of this region it means another thing entirely, a filled chewy sweet sold by the kilo. That ambiguity sits on exactly the column a single distant source already fills. We do not guess at it in an offer. Tell us which one you mean — filled chew or wrapped toffee, cocoa or milk centre, loose by the kilo or in a printed bag — and we confirm which of our lines matches before quoting. If none does, it is sourced on request and handled the same way.

Sourced on request

The core range is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars. Everything outside it is sourced on request rather than claimed: couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging. We confirm composition and format before quoting, and if a line cannot be confirmed it does not go into the offer. What is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest.

Currency and payment

Offers in US dollars. Bank transfer only: a deposit against the order and the balance before the container leaves, released against the loading photographs. The split and the banking route that applies on the day are stated in the offer and settled in writing before production starts, rather than after the pallets are wrapped.