Category Guides

General steps to import bay leaves from Turkey: supplier, specification, Incoterm, shipping from Mersin and customs codes.

AgroHoby states a shelf life of 2 years for Turkish bay leaves. How extension services advise storing dried herbs and what labels should show.

A general checklist of the quality, safety, packaging and document points a buyer can ask a bay leaf supplier to put in a specification.

Turkish, California and Indian bay leaves come from three different plants. A comparison of botanical name, native region, leaf, aroma and use.

Bay leaf and laurel leaf usually name the dried leaf of Laurus nobilis. The common names, how they differ and how to write them on a quote request.

How Laurus nobilis leaves are harvested and dried, what research says about wild collection in Türkiye, and where AgroHoby sources bay leaves in Mersin.

The HS code for bay leaves (0910.99), the EU CN code and the US HTS code, and how to check them with your customs broker.

How Turkish bay leaves are graded by size, colour uniformity, cleanliness and aroma, and what the seven AgroHoby quality names mean.