Sweets, dragées, Turkish delight and chocolate from Gaziantep for importers in South Sudan

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 2025 record says, and what it cannot say

Unlike much of this region, this market declares its own import figures rather than leaving them to be reconstructed from other countries' export declarations, and the year on the record is 2025. Chocolate: 117,371 US dollars, with Türkiye fifth at 0.27 per cent. Sugar confectionery: 6,513,870 US dollars, with Türkiye fifth at 0.0 per cent after rounding. Two cautions come with it. A customs record counts what was declared at a border post, so goods that move informally across a long land frontier are not in it, and the formal channel is smaller than actual consumption by an amount nobody publishes. And a single year in a column this small moves a long way on one or two shipments, so treat the shares as the shape of the trade rather than as a fixed ranking.

A shelf filled from next door

Almost the whole sugar-confectionery column arrives from two neighbours, Uganda at 52.0 per cent and Kenya at 41.3 per cent, with India at 4.9 per cent behind them. Chocolate follows the same regional pattern — Rwanda 51.7 per cent, Kenya 22.8 per cent — with Spain at 21.1 per cent as the one distant source of any size. A customs table records the country a consignment was declared from, not necessarily the factory that made it. Some of that volume is regional manufacture and some of it is stock that already sat in a distributor's warehouse in the region before it travelled on, and the table cannot separate the two. We will not guess which is which. What we can put on the table is a different shape of supply: a container loaded at our factorys' door in Gaziantep and shipped against your order. The argument is not that a neighbour's price is wrong. It is the number of hands between the factory and your warehouse, who sets the reorder, and how much of the arrangement exists on paper before the money moves.

No seaport: the route is quoted with the goods

There is no seaport here, so nothing arrives by sea at the final destination. A container is discharged at a port in a neighbouring country and finishes the journey overland, which means the goods travel under a transit procedure before they are entered for home use, and the agent who handles that inland leg matters to your schedule as much as the shipping line does. We do not bury that inside one word. The offer names the delivery term, the port of discharge it is quoted against, the crossing assumed for the inland leg, and the point at which 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 Turkish end of the journey is short and predictable; the long and variable part is at your end, and it is planned rather than assumed. Your clearing agent confirms what applies on the day.

Heat, the inland leg, and why we push the sugar side

The two columns are not the size they are by accident. Wrapped sweets, toffees, chews, jellies, sugar-shelled dragées and Turkish delight travel dry, tolerate a warm road and share one box without any special handling. Chocolate does not, and a reefer only protects it as far as the cold chain reaches — which on this route is not to the final delivery point. So tell us where the cold chain ends and what the inland leg looks like in the month you want to ship, and we will say plainly which lines we would load and which we would keep off a first container. That is also why a compound-coated line and a chocolate-coated line are never treated as interchangeable here: they behave differently in heat and they are different products. A coating made with vegetable fat is named a compound or a glaze on the technical data sheet, on the pack and in the price list, never chocolate. In the European Union it may not be sold as chocolate at all, and we keep the two words apart in every market for the same reason — a buyer who finds out the difference at the shelf finds out too late.

Label, in English

English for the mandatory information: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens declared, 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 before quoting, so you know what will arrive rather than what we hope will. For own-label lines we prepare the content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork against it before anything is printed. Where a line is destined for a mixed regional counter and you want a second language alongside English, say so at the artwork stage rather than after the plates are made.

The file, the certificates, and what the importer holds

The rules that apply are national and they change, so this page does not name an agreement or print a duty figure that would be out of date by the time you read it. The origin document and the rules in force are named in the offer as they stand on the day, and your clearing agent confirms them. 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, and we do not describe a certificate we have not seen. Lines containing 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 and files the consignment for entry.

We measured the search channel, and it is empty

Two rounds of English keyword measurement on real South Sudan geography returned 380 raw phrases and not one of them clears a twenty-a-month threshold. There is no wholesale or import layer under that, because there is no layer above the line at all, and the autocomplete round had no surviving seed to expand and returned nothing. We publish that instead of quietly writing a page full of keywords, because it changes what this page is for. Nothing here is written to rank. It is written so that a conversation which started at a trade counter, on a phone call or through a regional contact can be continued on paper, and so that the person who has to explain us to a partner has something to send them.

How one container is built

You send a list — product references from the product pages, or simply the shelf you are trying to fill — and we come back with price per line, case weight, piece count, cartons per pallet, lead time, delivery term and the document set, in one written offer in US dollars within two working days. For this market the sensible first container leans hard towards wrapped sweets, jellies, dragées and Turkish delight, with chocolate in a small, deliberate share so you can see how it lands on your shelf before committing a second run to it. Several lines can sit on one order, one document set and one arrival. If a line cannot be confirmed at the format or case weight you asked for, it is left out of the offer rather than promised and adjusted later.

Sourced on request

What we make and sell is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars. Everything outside that is sourced on request rather than claimed as ours: couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw pistachios and other raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging. We confirm composition and format before quoting, and a line that cannot be confirmed does not go into the offer. What is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest, so asking costs you nothing but the question.

Currency and payment

Offers in US dollars. Bank transfer only: 50 per cent with the order and 50 per cent before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. The offer states the banking route that applies on the day, and it is settled in writing before production starts rather than after the pallets are wrapped.