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

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.

Two tables, two positions

Sugar confectionery: an import table of 3,973,191 US dollars in 2024, with Türkiye first at 27.1 per cent. Chocolate: 11,346,482 US dollars, with Türkiye eleventh at 3.2 per cent, Germany at 21.7 per cent and Italy at 15.6 per cent. For a buyer this means two different conversations. On sweets we are quoting into a line the trade already carries, so the question is format, case weight and landed cost. On chocolate we are quoting against a European shelf, so the offer has to answer on composition, pack format and lead time line by line, and it is written that way.

French is the buying language

We measured the three languages separately before writing anything. French is where the buying happens: 187 phrases above the twenty-a-month threshold, 14,520 searches a month in total, of which 600 a month are wholesale and supply phrasing. English carries 590 a month of B2B phrasing, largely from outside the country. Arabic is by far the busiest consumer language at 6,310 searches a month, but the B2B phrasing in it measured zero. So the offer, the price list and the correspondence come in French or English, and Arabic is where the pack has to speak, not the purchase order.

How that 600 was counted

The raw French B2B total was 1,030 a month. We did not print that number, because the same request is recorded three times under different word orders, and adding them up inflates the market by about 1.7 times. Merging the variants and keeping only phrases above twenty a month leaves 600. We would rather hand a buyer a number we can defend than a bigger one, and the same rule applies to everything numeric on this site: if it is not measured, it is not written.

Where the shelf sits today

The search results tell you where a Tunisian buyer currently lands. Arabic queries fill up with Gulf online retail, priced at the piece, with recipe pages mixed in; local supplier pages barely appear. French queries return wholesalers in France and Spain and a French B2B marketplace, which means European stock, a European margin and a second set of documents. English queries return trade-statistics pages rather than suppliers, the profile of someone studying Tunisia from outside. A direct container from Gaziantep removes one rung from that ladder: the goods are bought where they are made, in the format you specify, on one set of documents.

Label

The mandatory information in Arabic, with French alongside as the importer’s file requires: 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 before you order. For private label we prepare the label content in both languages from our technical data sheet, and we check your artwork against it before anything is printed.

Origin document and duty

The origin document that travels with the consignment, and the rules that apply to it, are named in the offer, per tariff line, as they stand on the day of the offer. Buyers sometimes ask us for the movement or conformity papers they have seen used on other routes; those belong to other destinations, and asking for the wrong paper is a common reason a first container waits. No duty rate or percentage is printed on this site, because it changes and because the importer files against the tariff line, not against a web page.

Importer file and certificates

The importer holds the registration and files the consignment before it lands. From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates and the analysis report per line. 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 so it can be checked against what your file accepts before you order. Lines without such ingredients are stated as such on the data sheet.

Chocolate and compound are not the same word

A vegetable-fat coated line is a coating, not chocolate, and in the European market it cannot be labelled as chocolate; we never use the two words for the same product. This matters here more than in most places, because the chocolate table is held by European suppliers and the cheapest way to look competitive against it is to quote a coated line as though it were chocolate. Every line in our offer says which it is, so the importer can label it correctly, file it under the right tariff line and put it on the right shelf.

Ramadan and the seasons

Ramadan and Eid ranges, gift boxes and mini-bar assortments are quoted ahead of the season, and the lead time per line is stated in the offer rather than here. A first order usually mixes the seasonal lines with the everyday shelf, so one container serves both and the season is not the only thing riding on it.

Route

Gaziantep to Mersin is about three hours by road, so consolidation and the port are on the same working week. From Mersin, sea freight to Radès or Sfax, with the transshipment port, the delivery term, FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP, and the transit 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, and both can ride in the same container. Offers in US dollars, bank transfer, 50 per cent with the order and 50 per cent before the container leaves, against the loading photographs.