Saudi Arabia regulates agri & livestock for biosecurity
When Saudi Arabia files a rule touching agriculture & livestock (upstream), the objective it states most often is animal and plant health: 87% of 171 filings that state any objective. Next is human health and safety at 18%. The objective is the filer’s own, from the WTO’s fixed vocabulary; a filing can state several.
Biosecurity objectives are answered at the border with certificates and inspection, not in the factory.
77 of a possible 90Tier B, systematic first-party observation. Nothing at this tier is allowed past 90, however good it looks.
Verified September 9, 2026Rechecked every 365 days, next by September 9, 2027.
Held since January 1, 1995How the market is physically or commercially arranged. The earliest date we are willing to say this held. It may well have been true before that; we do not backdate a record past the evidence we have read. Supported, version 1.
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Recomputing stated objectives over this market’s WTO filings in this industry returns a different leading objective, or the same one outside 82% to 92%.
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Evidence
- Tier Bregulationn = 148
World Trade Organization: ePing SPS & TBT notification register
148 WTO filings stating this objective, counted in the register on 2026-09-09.
Read 2026-09-09 · Open government · about this source
History
- v1created
Derived from the regulatory-intent family on 2026-08-10.
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“Saudi Arabia regulates agri & livestock for biosecurity”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:sa:agri:regulatory-intent, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/sa--agri--regulatory-intent. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129
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We asked this of 36 markets. Here is where the answer differs most.
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