The Ministries of Commerce, Agriculture and Water, Health, Municipal and Rural Affairs and Finance and National Economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been instructed to take greater measures to prevent the importation of Israeli products into the state. According to the report, Saudi authorities recently seized large quantities of products manufactured in Israel, which were smuggled into the Arab kingdom by third party exporters. The method used by foreign exporters to bring Israeli products into Saudi Araba, reports the Arab News, is re-exportation of Israeli goods ?under new certificates showing them to have been manufactured there. Cyprus has allegedly become a center for smuggling Israeli goods into the Kingdom.?
In addition to orders that care should be taken that ?[n]o consignment? be released onto the market before it is confirmed that it did not originate from Israel,? the Saudi authorities were ordered to ?step up their field inspections in the markets and commercial complexes in addition to the intensified examinations at medical and agricultural laboratories.?
Furthermore, Saudi Arabian missions and embassies in other states have become the eyes and ears of the Saudi port authorities and have been ?instructed to report attempts to export Israeli goods by companies in their host countries.? For example, in Turkey, Saudis reported that they have ?observed Turkish exporters violating Saudi regulations by re-exporting Israeli-manufactured products to the Kingdom, a practice that is likely to adversely affect trade between the two countries.? One German exporter was black-listed by the Saudi Commerce Ministry when it was revealed that it had attempted to ?export Israeli-manufactured wheat fiber to the Kingdom.?
In addition to orders that care should be taken that ?[n]o consignment? be released onto the market before it is confirmed that it did not originate from Israel,? the Saudi authorities were ordered to ?step up their field inspections in the markets and commercial complexes in addition to the intensified examinations at medical and agricultural laboratories.?
Furthermore, Saudi Arabian missions and embassies in other states have become the eyes and ears of the Saudi port authorities and have been ?instructed to report attempts to export Israeli goods by companies in their host countries.? For example, in Turkey, Saudis reported that they have ?observed Turkish exporters violating Saudi regulations by re-exporting Israeli-manufactured products to the Kingdom, a practice that is likely to adversely affect trade between the two countries.? One German exporter was black-listed by the Saudi Commerce Ministry when it was revealed that it had attempted to ?export Israeli-manufactured wheat fiber to the Kingdom.?