Article 27 of the Saudi Trade Remedies Law

This article distinguishes between two kinds of objection:

• Objection to the decision imposing the measures itself, which has its own path under the Law.
• Objection to the executive procedures taken by the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority to apply and collect the measures, which is the subject of this article.

Rule: interested parties who are harmed by the procedures the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority takes to apply and collect the imposed trade remedies measures may object to them in accordance with the procedures applied in customs transactions.

So if the dispute is about how the measure is applied at Customs, such as applying the measure to a particular shipment or calculating it, the path is the usual customs objection procedures, not a grievance to the Authority's chairman. The article does not detail these procedures but refers to those applied in customs transactions.

Under Article 1, interested parties include importers, exporters, producers and others with a direct interest in the product, provided they declare themselves within the period set in the Implementing Regulations.

It is preceded by Article 26, which regulates the importer's grievance to the Governor against the fine decision and collection of evaded measures, then the cancellation action before the Administrative Court. It is followed by Article 28, which prevents combining a complaint under this Law with a complaint under the Unified GCC Law in the same case. Anyone harmed by a customs procedure in collecting measures may consult a lawyer specialized in commercial matters.