Processed The Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources processed 556 applications for industrial customs exemptionin March 2025, as part of the Ministry’s efforts to encourage local industry and enhance its global competitiveness by granting national industrial facilities customs duty exemptions on their imports of industrial inputs.
The Ministry’s official spokesperson, Jarah Al-Jarah, explained that the customs exemption requests processed by the Ministry include (1,908) items of raw materials and (5,332) items of machinery, equipment, and spare parts, noting that the customs exemption service is part of a package of incentives, enablers, and services provided by the industry and mining sector to facilitate the industrial investor’s journey through all stages of their project, from concept to enablement, production, and export.
He noted that the industrial customs exemption service aligns with the objectives of the National Industrial Strategy to empower and develop the Saudi industrial sector, and underscores the Ministry’s prominent role in stimulating and accelerating the growth of the national industrial base, explaining that industrial facilities can obtain the customs exemption service quickly through streamlined procedures carried out via the digital platform for the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources“ services, ”Sana’i.“
Through the customs exemption service, the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources is committed to supporting and encouraging local factories, developing their national production sectors, reduce production costs, and create new industrial opportunities. The service enables industrial facilities holding an industrial license to obtain customs duty exemptions ”customs duties" on their imports of machinery, equipment, spare parts, raw materials, semi-finished goods, and packaging materials directly required for production.