Foreign Trade

Press release… Chocolate and cocoa-based product exports exceed 1 billion dollars… According to data shared by the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM), the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector, which includes chocolate and cocoa products, sunflower oil, biscuits and wafers, confectionery and staple food items such as pasta and wheat flour, …

Press release… 94 percent of dried tomato exports came from the Aegean Region… Blood-red tomatoes, grown in the fertile lands of Anatolia, were painstakingly sun-dried and exported to 98 countries. Türkiye exported 108 million dollars worth of dried tomatoes in the first 10 months of 2025, ranking second globally behind …

Press release… Funds, quotas and bans led to a 28 percent decline in olive oil exports! Türkiye has endured a challenging season for exports in the olive oil sector. The country exported 70,626 tonnes of golden liquid in the 2023/24 season, but only 50,713 tonnes in the 2024/25 season. Olive …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Coordinating Chair of the Mediterranean Exporters’ Association (AKİB), announced that they achieved 1.45 billion dollars in exports in October. He noted that they reached their highest figures in the Iraqi, Russian and US markets in the 10th month of the year and that the strongest increases …

Press release… Funds, quotas and bans led to a 28 percent decline in olive oil exports! Türkiye has endured a challenging season for exports in the olive oil sector. The country exported 70,626 tonnes of golden liquid in the 2023/24 season, but only 50,713 tonnes in the 2024/25 season. Olive …

Press release… In the January-October period of 2025, 206,000 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported from Türkiye, generating a foreign exchange inflow of 1.813 billion dollars. Compared to the same period of the previous year, these exports decreased by 19 percent in quantity and 12 percent in value. Sebahattin Arslantürk, Deputy …

Hakan Sefa Çakır, Chair of the Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, announced that the need for investment in R&D and innovation to ensure sustainability in the province’s food industry. It was stated that Mersin is progressing toward becoming Türkiye’s food hub thanks to its agriculture-food integration and logistics superiority. …

Kazakhstan achieved a historic success by harvesting 27.1 million tonnes of grain in 2023. Agriculture Minister Aidarbek Saparov announced that the new harvest met domestic demand and increased export potential. The country is taking steps to expand into new markets in addition to its traditional ones.This year, farmers in Kazakhstan …

Latin America dominates global coffee production, with Brazil and Colombia serving as the region’s leading suppliers. This article examines the critical role these two nations play in the coffee industry, the complex challenges threatening their harvests, and the sustainable strategies being implemented to safeguard the future of this vital crop. …

Italian company’s delay in purchasing hazelnuts is its own choice and it cannot pass on the cost of its wrong strategy to Türkiye, says head of authority! ANKARA… Türkiye’s Competition Authority said Monday that it is imperative for the Italian company Ferrero, the maker of Nutella, which has been operating …