7th December 2010 Deadline for COC's for New Vehicles to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Customs have reiterated to vehicle Importers that a CoC& demonstrating compliance to Saudi standards is mandatory for all new vehicles for the purpose of KSA Custom clearance in line with the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) decree requirement.  

The CoC should be obtained by all vehicle Importers/ Exporters in their country of export/origin and this requirement will be mandatorily enforced from 7 December 2010 as per (CD-573A) Saudi Customs article published on their official website which can be viewed on following URL: 

http://www.customs.gov.sa/CustomsNew/news/newsview.aspx?newsid=3086 

Important Requirement for Exporting New Cars to Saudi Arabia

All shipments of new vehicles require a Certificate of Conformity.

Saudi Customs have recently confirmed that they will be reinforcing the requirement for the Certificate of Conformity (CoC) as per the MoCI decree 6386 for clearing shipments of new vehicles.

Exporters who have been previously issuing self Certificates of Conformity to clear their shipments will no longer be able to do so.   Instead it will be mandatory for exporters to obtain CoCs from Certification and Inspection bodies such as Intertek.

All new vehicles arriving in the Kingdom without a Certificate of Conformity issued by an inspection body could be subject to significant delays in the clearance of goods from Customs or possible penalties.

For further information please email info.government@intertek.com

Welcome

Welcome to Intertek's Government Services blog on Exporting to the Middle East.  Here you will find up to the minute news on all product conformity requirements for exporting to the Middle East.

Many Governments within the Middle East have stringent requirements in place to ensure their consumers are protected from sub-standard products and goods.

Intertek works with these Governments to manage programmes such as Pre-Shipment Inspection, Destination Inspection, Product Conformity or Pre-Export Verification (PVoC) to Standards.  Intertek can issue the necessary certificates to companies exporting to these countries and ensure that their products comply with the importing country's requirements and so clear customs smoothly.

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