Steps to import and sell in Saudi Arabia
It ‘s known that marketing, selling, distribution, consumer service, personnel costs, offices, cars , legal and commercial responsibilities before the commercial and supervisory government agencies and other expenses , are the most important and difficult stages after manufacturing and the most costly and risky.
Conditions and requirements for the import, sale and success of the foreign companies products that wish to do business and trade in Saudi Arabia
The first stage
- Any product that any person buys or that any Saudi company imports from outside Saudi Arabia
- It must be registered by a Saudi company that has a commercial registry in Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO ) and Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) , and it must obtain a customs code number and classified in there system
- There are several accounts for the Saudi company in a system in the in Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO ), another electronic system in the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) , another electronic system in Saudi Customs Authority, and an electronic system in the Saudi Ministry of Commerce
- All information about the Saudi company and the foreign company outside Saudi Arabia, specifications, pictures and product information …etc it must be recorded
- All of these systems are interrelated with each other, and every ministry and government agency has its own tasks, demands, conditions, and regulations , And another account in the General Authority for Zakat and Income, another account in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, another account in the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, and another account in the General Directorate of Passports
- For example, if you submitted a request in a government agency, then one of the conditions for applying for and implementing government service is to fulfill the conditions and requirements of the other ministry or other government agencies.
The next stages
It will depend on the market need and the type and history of the product in the market
And It will be decide in due time according to each case