He said the products benefiting from tariff cuts included chemicals, perfumes, shampoo, toothpaste, shaving cream, insecticides and plastic goods.

“Tariffs in this category will be reduced from 20-7.6 percent to 5.5-6.5 percent,” Al-Khulaiwi said, adding that tariffs of 10 agricultural projects would be slashed from 25 to 15 percent.

He said Saudi Arabia has reduced tariffs of 816 products ever since it joined the World Trade Organization in 2005, including 472 products in the first phase, 22 in the second phase (2007), 180 in the third phase (2008) and 20 in the fourth phase in 2009.

He said more information about tariffs of different products is available on the department’s website: www.customs.gov.sa