Most sellers who succeed on Amazon in the UAE assume Saudi Arabia is the same move at a larger scale. It is not, and the seller account is the easiest part of it. Selling into the Kingdom as a foreign business runs into three things the UAE does not ask of you. The entity comes first, through an investment licence from the Ministry of Investment and then a commercial registration. Tax registration is second, and a non-resident seller cannot normally register alone, because the Kingdom requires a tax representative established in Saudi Arabia to act on the taxpayer behalf, and that representative carries liability with you. Product certification is third: regulated goods are registered on the Saudi product safety platform before they ship, in two stages, one for the product and one for each consignment. We run the entry as one file rather than as three unrelated applications.
