Prohibited & Restricted Commodities
The following goods are not allowed to be imported into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
under any circumstances and will be destroyed upon arrival at the Saudi border.
- Alcoholic beverages
- Alcohol distilling equipment
- All animal blood products
- All kinds of Liquor, or items containing liquor as an ingredient
- All narcotics without exception regardless of form.(Including poppy seeds)
- Annoying car horns or horns that play tunes
- Antiques & works Art
- Asbestos
- Blank invoices for companies established abroad
- Christmas Trees
- Counterfeit products that bear the brand of a manufacture or brand name of a
commercial product, or a commercial title, - Crosses, Crucifixes or stars of David
- Dangerous goods, hazardous or chemical combination materials
- Dogs except with permission from the Saudi Arabian embassy in origin country
- Explosives except by licensed importers
- Firearms & parts thereof
- Frogs meat
- Furs & Ivory
- Gambling devices or Slot machines
- Gemstones
- Jewellery
- Label and packing material (can be imported only if consignee has a license
agreement with the shipper or with permission from the customs authority - Laser pens or pointers
- Masks
- Massage equipment indecently packaged
- Musical greeting cards
- Night vision binoculars or similar items
- Nutmeg, seeds & powder thereof
- Phonographic/Audio Visual media products, subject to authorization by the Ministry of Information
- Pigs (Swine) and pork products
- Pornography
- Postal envelopes
- Soil samples
- Spawn of silk-worms, any kinds of soil, leaf, stem, straw and natural manure used for agriculture,
- Tobacco advertising materials
- Used tires or retread tires
Source: Saudi Arabian Import Guide
