Turkish chocolate, dragees, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in Mauritania
One mixed container from Gaziantep, Turkiye, to Nouakchott: chocolate, dragees, Turkish delight — the malban the trade here asks for by name — wrapped confectionery and pistachio lines, with the label content prepared in Arabic and French. Written offer in US dollars within two working days of your list.
One container, every line, from Gaziantep.
Mauritania imported 680,816 US dollars of chocolate in 2024. Spain was first at 26.5%; Turkiye was second, at 9.9%. Sugar confectionery is the larger of the two lines at 1,844,871 US dollars, with Turkiye fourth at 6.7%. Together that is about 2.5 million dollars a year — a small table, and we would rather write that down than dress it up. What it means in practice is that nobody here is filling containers with a single product group, and a page that promised volume would be describing a different country.
The signal that is not small is the search. Seven Arabic phrases clear the 20-a-month threshold we use, 1,370 searches a month between them, and the largest single one is malban, at 590 a month — the local name for Turkish delight. Word-order variants of the same request are counted once, not added together, so that figure is the demand rather than the arithmetic. The French-language measurement totals 90 a month and the English 110. Against a 2.5 million dollar import table, a product that people look up by its own name is worth more than a percentage point.
So the shape of the offer follows the shape of the market: a mixed load. One container, several groups, a minimum per line rather than per shipment, and the malban carton sitting next to the chocolate rather than waiting behind it. Turkiye already stands second in the chocolate line, so the door is ajar rather than shut — what is missing is a direct route. We are a manufacturer and exporter in Gaziantep, and we quote the container that leaves Mersin for Nouakchott without being bought and warehoused somewhere else first.
We supply direct from our own factory in Gaziantep, the city we work in.
- Food importers and distributors supplying supermarkets, groceries and the neighbourhood trade in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou from a single mixed container
- Confectionery and biscuit wholesalers selling chocolate, dragees, jellies and wrapped sweets by the carton, who want a second origin beside the European lines already on the list
- Sweet shops, caterers and the gift trade buying malban, dragees and boxed assortments for Ramadan, Eid and weddings
- Traders working the port who clear and consolidate, and need the consignee named and the document set complete from the start
- Brands and retail groups that want chocolate, dragees or Turkish delight made under their own name in Gaziantep
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.
From your list to your port.
- 01
Your list
Product references, quantities and the destination port.
- 02
Written offer
Every line priced, with the pallet plan, within two working days.
- 03
Samples and proforma
Free samples, courier at your cost; 50% with the order.
- 04
One container
Collected, consolidated, photographed pallet by pallet, shipped.
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 table says
- Chocolate imports were 680,816 US dollars in 2024, with Spain first at 26.5% and Turkiye second at 9.9%. Sugar confectionery was the larger line, 1,844,871 US dollars, with Turkiye fourth at 6.7%. Roughly 2.5 million dollars across both. That is a small table by any measure, and it is the reason this page talks about format and minimum instead of tonnage: the question here is not how much can be shipped, it is how many groups can travel in one box.
- Malban is asked for by name
- Seven Arabic phrases clear the 20-a-month threshold, 1,370 searches a month in total, and malban alone accounts for 590 of them. Variants that differ only in word order are merged and counted once. What that proves is that Turkish delight is a known product here with a local name, not an import someone has to explain on the shelf. What it does not prove is the size of the trade — the customs table above is the size of the trade. The two are read together, which is why the first container usually carries malban and chocolate at once.
- Where the buyer looks today
- Searching these lines in Arabic returns the Gulf online retail shelf and recipe pages; in French, wholesale lists in France and Spain and a European B2B marketplace; in English, trade statistics sites rather than suppliers. None of those is a factory, and the first two are goods that have already been bought once and warehoused once before they reach Nouakchott. Loading in Gaziantep removes that step: the price is our factory price plus the freight.
- One container, several groups
- The unit of sale is one full container, and it can mix as many lines as you like across chocolate, dragees, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery, jellies, biscuits and pistachio lines, including pistachio spread in jars. Case weight and pieces per case are stated per line in the offer. Items outside that range — couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, empty packaging, baklava, halva, tahini — are sourced on request; we confirm composition and format before quoting.
- Minimums, currency and payment
- The minimum is set per line, not per shipment, and it is stated in the offer. In a market this size that is the number that decides everything: a line whose minimum is a production run belongs in the second order, a line that starts at a few cartons belongs in the first, and the list you send is what tells us which is which. Offers are in US dollars; bank transfer only, 50% with the order and 50% before the container leaves, against the loading photographs.
- Route
- Sea freight from Mersin to Nouakchott, or to Nouadhibou where your file names it, with the transshipment port and the transit stated in the offer. Gaziantep to Mersin is about three hours by road, so the goods are loaded and at the quay inside a working day. Delivery terms quoted: FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP. Sailing frequency and transit days are not printed here, because they belong to the offer on the day.
- Heat and the reefer
- Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer, and the offer states the set temperature. Turkish delight, sugared almonds, jellies and hard candy travel dry. Both can share one container when the reefer carries the whole load, which is usually the cheaper answer on a mixed first order rather than splitting the shipment in two.
- Chocolate and compound
- Some lines are coated with a vegetable fat rather than cocoa butter. They are good products and they stand up better to heat, but they are a different declaration on the pack, and we never use the same word for both: chocolate is chocolate, compound is compound. The offer says which is which, per line, before you decide what goes on your shelf.
- Label
- The mandatory information in Arabic and French, as the importer’s file requires, with English alongside where the trade 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 private label we prepare the content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork before anything is printed.
- Documents, origin and the importer’s file
- The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer, together with the tariff line per product, so the landed cost is known before you order. Nothing about duty or rates is printed on this site, because the offer states what applies on the day. The commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, the analysis report per line travel with the consignment, and copies of our certificates are available on request. Lines with ingredients of animal origin, gelatine in jellies above all, carry our halal certificate and the offer names the certifying body per line; lines without such ingredients are stated as such on the data sheet. The importer holds the registration with the authority and files the consignment in his own name.
Private label chocolate and confectionery for Mauritanian brands
Looking for a private label chocolate manufacturer for a brand or retail group in Mauritania? We put our own lines under your name: tablets, bars, dragees in doypacks, gift boxes, malban boxes and pistachio spread jars, with the label content prepared in Arabic and French and nothing printed before you approve it.
Private label for Mauritanian brands →Asked before the first list.
Do you work with importers in Mauritania?
We are open to importers, wholesalers, sweet shops, port traders and private-label brands in Mauritania, and we quote in writing. Send the product references, the quantities you have in mind and the delivery term, and the offer follows within two working days.
Where does Mauritania buy its chocolate and confectionery now?
In 2024 the country imported 680,816 US dollars of chocolate, with Spain first at 26.5% and Turkiye second at 9.9%. Sugar confectionery was larger, 1,844,871 US dollars, with Turkiye fourth at 6.7%.
The market here is small — does a full container make sense?
That is exactly why the container is mixed. The minimum is set per line, not per shipment, so one box can carry chocolate, malban, dragees, jellies and biscuits together instead of a year’s supply of one item. The offer states the minimum and the case weight line by line, and you build the load from there.
Do you supply malban?
Yes. Boxed Turkish delight from Gaziantep, plain, with pistachio, in rolls and chocolate-coated, is one of the core groups, and it travels dry rather than in the reefer. It is the single most searched line in the Arabic measurement for this market, at 590 a month, which is why it is usually on the first order.
Will chocolate hold up on the way to Nouakchott?
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer and the offer states the set temperature. Turkish delight, sugared almonds, jellies and hard candy travel dry, and both can share one container when the reefer carries the whole load. Where a line is compound-coated rather than chocolate, the offer says so per line.
Is there preferential treatment on goods of Turkish origin?
The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer, along with the tariff line per product. We do not print duty figures on this site, because the offer states what applies on the day.
Is Antep Foods a chocolate manufacturer in Türkiye?
Yes. Antep Foods is a manufacturer and exporter in Gaziantep, exporting since 2002. Production takes place in our own factory; certificates and data sheets are issued for our factory. Wholesale only; prices come in a written offer, not on the site.
Send the list. We do the rest.
Send your product list with approximate quantities and the destination port. You get one offer covering every line, then one container, loaded and photographed before the doors close.
Mixed containerHow a list becomes a container →