71195 Saudi Arabia: Trade At-A-Glance Dec-08 2007 GDP 2007 GDP 2007 Share 2007 Trade Membership No. of RTAs/ EIAs (millions) per capita in World Trade per capita GATT WTO Goods Services $377,432 $15,470 1.08% $14,724 No 2005 2 0 S. Arabia TRADE PERFORMANCE ‡ HI non-OECD Ranking Decile TP High inc TRADE POLICY (TP) (out of 125) 19 2 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE) (out of 126) 84 7 TO EE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) (out of 181) 16 1 TRADE FACILITATION (TF) (out of 151) 41 3 TRADE OUTCOME (TO) (out of 161) 100 7 TF IE ‡ Rankings are based on the "representative" indicators (in bold) in each group below for the latest year Outer bound represents best value in latest year TRADE POLICY (TP)  1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Trade Tariff Restrictiveness Index (MFN applied tariffs)& 11.8 4.7 3.8 * TTRI (applied tariffs including preferences) & .. 3.8 3.5 * TTRI Overall TRI (OTRI, applied tariffs incl. prefs.+NTMs)& .. 5.3 5.0 * (MFN) Other trade policy indicators MFN applied tariff - simple avg (%) 12.2 8.4 5.1 4.9 Applied Dispersion (coefficient of variation) 0.4 2.2 2.4 2.1 tariff (wgt avg) Maximum rate 234.8 817.4 585.6 437.7 Agriculture - simple avg (%) 12.8 10.8 7.4 6.9 Import Nonagriculture - simple avg (%) 12.1 8.0 4.8 4.7 duties MFN applied tariff - trade weighted avg (%) 11.4 11.1 5.2 4.8 MFN zero-duty imports (% in total imports) 11.2 11.3 15.3 20.4 * Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - trade weighted avg (%) 11.4 11.1 4.9 4.7 Nontariff measures Agriculture 12.7 28.2 10.2 10.1 Nonagriculture 11.1 7.9 4.4 4.1 0 10 20 30 Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - production weighted avg (%) .. .. .. HI non-OECD High inc S. Arabia Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) escalation (finished% minus raw%) .. 0.0 0.6 Agriculture .. .. 3.2 4.8 Nonagriculture .. .. 0.4 0.3 Import duties (% of imports) .. .. .. .. Services commit. Tariff overhang (MFN bound less MFN applied rate,%) .. .. 6.7 6.9 Bound tariff frequency ratio (% of total lines) 0.0 0.0 33.3 100.0 * Specific tariffs frequency ratio (%) 0.8 2.2 1.3 1.4 0 40 80 Non-tariff measures frequency ratio (%) 15.4 .. .. .. HI non-OECD High inc S. Arabia Overall GATS commitment index (0-100, best) .. 55.5 55.5 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE)  1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ MA-TTRI (applied tariffs incl. prefs.)& 2.2 1.7 * MA-OTRI (applied tariffs incl. prefs.+NTMs)& 3.2 2.6 * MA-TTRI Other external environment indicators ROW applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - weighted avg (%) 109.1 2.7 1.3 1.4 * MFN duty free Agriculture 12.9 12.7 4.1 4.2 * (exports) Nonagriculture 109.5 2.7 1.3 1.4 * MFN zero-duty exports (% of total exports) 28.5 32.8 54.3 47.8 * Value of prefer Exports with FTA / CU partners (% of total exports) 0.0 0.0 11.8 12.2 * Preferences (EU+U.S.) utilization rate (%) .. .. 85.0 70.0 * 0 1 Lowest Highest Preferences (EU+U.S.) actual value (% of exports) .. .. 0.1 0.2 * HI non-OECD High inc S. Arabia Real effective exchange rate (% change,+ =apprec.) 0.7 -3.1 -2.0 0.1 ^ Indicators shown are period averages, incl. growth rates. Latest indicates 2008; when not available, 2006 or 2007 is used(noted by *). For more infor., see User's Guide at http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008. ŸMFN: most favored nation; NTM: nontariff measures; MA: market access; ROW: rest of the world; FTA: free trade agreement; CU: customs union; WTO: World Trade Organization GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; WGI: World Government Indicators; ".." indicates missing value; RTA/EIA: regional trade arrangement / economic integration arrangement; & 2007 are preliminary estimates Saudi Arabia Trade At-A-Glance Dec-08 INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) 2004 2006 2007 2008 Ease of Doing Business (rank out of 181) .. .. 24 16 Starting a business (rank) .. .. 38 28 Enforcing contracts (rank) .. .. 136 28 Ease of Doing Closing a business (rank) .. 82 137 Business Other institutional environment indicators WGI - Regulatory Quality (-2.5 to +2.5, best) -0.30 -0.22 -0.18 .. 0 80 160 WGI - Rule of Law (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.26 0.20 0.27 .. HI non-OECD High inc S. Arabia WGI - Control of Corruption (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.05 -0.03 -0.10 .. TRADE FACILITATION (TF) 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Logistics Performance Index (LPI, 1 to 5 best) .. .. 3.0 3.0 * Efficiency of customs and other border procedures .. .. 2.7 2.7 * Logistic Index Quality of transport and IT infrastructures .. .. 3.0 3.0 * International transportation costs .. .. 2.9 2.9 * Logistics competence .. .. 2.9 2.9 * Trading Trackability of shipments .. .. 3.0 3.0 * Across Borders Domestic transportation costs .. .. 2.8 2.8 * Timeliness of shipment .. .. 3.7 3.7 * Other trade facilitation indicators UNCTAD Shipping Doing Business - Trading Across Borders (rank out of 181) .. 33 16 No. of documents required for exports .. .. 5 5 No. of days process required for exports .. .. .. .. Telephones Cost to export (US$ per container) .. .. 772 681 per 100 No. of documents required for imports .. .. 8 5 No. of days process required for imports .. .. 29 18 Secondary Cost to import (US$ per container) .. .. 655 678 enrollment Liner shipping connectivity index (0-100 best) .. .. 37.6 45.0 Telephones and mobiles per 100 people 12.6 38.6 103.8 133.8 * 0 Lowest 1 Highest Average cost of 3-minute call to U.S. (US$) 6.4 3.6 .. .. HI non-OECD High inc S. Arabia Internet usage (per 100 people) 0.1 6.4 19.5 25.6 * Secondary gross school enrollment (%) .. .. .. .. TRADE OUTCOME (TO) ## 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Real growth in trade of goods and services (%) 0.9 5.8 9.2 5.3 10 9.3 9.2 8.7 Exports 2.9 4.5 -0.4 0.7 8 8.0 7.9 6.6 Imports -2.3 8.5 13.0 9.5 6 5.8 5.2 5.3 Other trade outcome indicators 4 Trade integration (trade as % of GDP) 66.9 71.2 91.8 101.1 2 0.9 FDI inflow (% of GDP) 0.5 -0.3 1.5 3.7 0 1995-99 2000-04 2005-07 2008 World trade share growth (%) -1.6 4.9 7.5 10.5 Trade Growth Rate Exports 0.3 9.0 7.5 15.8 S. Arabia HI non-OECD High inc Imports -3.2 -0.9 7.8 -0.2 Merchandise share in total exports (%) 92.4 94.1 96.6 97.4 Exports Share (2005-07) Agriculture 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.7 * Service, Agric, Manufacturing 9.6 8.7 7.7 7.6 * 3.4 0.7 Manuf, Mining, fuel and others 81.7 84.6 88.2 88.4 * 7.7 Service share in total exports (%) 7.6 5.9 3.4 2.6 Tourism .. .. .. .. Transportation .. .. .. .. Other services .. .. .. .. Export product concentration index (0 to 100, highest) 71.5 76.0 75.5 75.5 * Mining, Export market concentration index (0 to 100, highest) 58.3 48.1 27.7 28.0 * 88.2 Top 5 exports share (% of merchandise exports) .. .. 90.5 90.0 * Top 5 exports (SITC Rev. 2; 3 digit) Petrol./bitum oil,crude[333], Hvy pet/bitum oils[334], Propane/butane[342], Ethylene polymer[571], Alcohols[512] ^ Indicators shown are period averages, incl. growth rates. Latest indicates 2008; when not available, 2006 or 2007 is used (noted by *). For more info., see User's Guide at http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008 ## Most outcome indicators (mostly through 2007) are from the WDI (World Bank, Data Group), UNCTAD or COMTRADE; for filling gaps and 2008, data from the Prospects Group are used.