Saudi Arabia — Trade & Compliance
Saudi Arabia's trade profile consolidates its merchandise flow from CEPII BACI, the preferential agreements it has entered from the World Bank, the international cargo conventions it has ratified from the UN Treaty Collection, and its applied tariff, VAT and currency of record from the World Bank, the EU and ISO 4217.
Every figure is shown as its named source records it and dated where the source dates it; trade partners and product codes link to their own pages where logibook profiles them.
Memberships & standing
Trade Flow
- 1China18.6%
- 2Rep. of Korea10.2%
- 3India10.1%
- 4Japan9.7%
- 5United Arab Emirates6.1%
- 1China24.7%
- 2USA6.4%
- 3India6.1%
- 4United Arab Emirates5.6%
- 5Germany4.3%
- 1Mineral fuels & oils72.0%
- 2Plastics6.5%
- 3Organic chemicals4.0%
- 4Electrical machinery2.6%
- 5Ships & boats2.4%
- 1Vehicles13.5%
- 2Machinery & mechanical appliances13.0%
- 3Electrical machinery11.2%
- 4Mineral fuels & oils4.8%
- 5Pearls, precious stones & metals4.5%
- 1United Arab Emirates+2.53pp
- 2Taiwan+2.53pp
- 3Poland+1.28pp
- 1Electrical machinery+2.21pp
- 2Ships & boats+1.39pp
- 1Mineral fuels & oils−5.16pp
- 2Plastics−0.33pp
- 3Fertilizers−0.27pp
Showing the leading partners and product groups by trade share; the full bilateral flow matrix is in — CEPII BACI · 2024
Preferential Trade Agreements
International Cargo Treaties
- ✓Convention on the International Maritime Organization. Geneva, 6 March 1948
- ✓Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. New York, 4 August 1995
- ✓United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Vienna, 11 April 1980
- ✓Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles. New York, 4 June 1954
- ✓Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention). Geneva, 14 November 1975
- ✓Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles. Geneva, 18 May 1956
- ✓Customs Convention on Containers, 1972. Geneva, 2 December 1972
Fiscal & Tariffs
Sanctions & restrictive measures
21 entities on UN/EU restrictive-measures lists — full lists: UN Security Council Consolidated List · 2026-04 · EU Consolidated Sanctions List
Key commodities
Top item per category of 79 commodities tracked — full lists: FAOSTAT · 2026-05 · British Geological Survey · U.S. EIA