Validity will be one year from the date of duty exemption issued by the Ministry to the consignee.
There is no specific type of the products. if the company is in diary or juice manufacturing business, then all the animal feeds, raw materials, Ingredient’s, Machineries & Spare Parts are qualified for exemption. All these activities must be included in the CR under importer's approved business activities. Ministry has the right to change or amend the list of exempted list of items any time.
It is not mandatory to mention the HS code in the commercial invoice & other shipping documents.
No, it's not against the Saudi Customs laws.
The importer has the right to request a study of the shipped item HS code by the concerned department if the HS code has been changed by the customs inspection group
It's will take from one to three months to give decision and process refund to the consignee.
Consignee can follow up for duty refund with the customs authority or Ministry of Finance thru official request letter or thru the importer's representative or the customs clearing agent.
Above information is only a guideline to consignee and it is not a legal documents Delta Logistics is not responsible if any rules of procedure in duty exemption is changed by the authority