Exporters of fake Chinese goods to be blacklisted

March 16, 2014

Riyadh, Mar 16: Trade and Industry Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has said that merchants and factories that engage in the adulteration of products in either the Kingdom or China would be blacklisted.

Al-Rabiah made his statement following the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Chinese Public Department for Quality Control, Test and Quarantine, to combat counterfeit and imitation goods during the visit of Crown Prince Salman, deputy prime minister and minister of defense, to China.

The minister pointed out that the agreement aims to reduce the flow of counterfeit consumer goods to Saudi markets by undertaking several measures, including blacklisting merchants and factories that engage in such practices, to prevent the export or import of such goods.

The agreement also calls for blacklisting laboratories and awarding certificates of conformity to counteract this phenomenon.

According to Al-Rabiah, the agreement includes a provision to draft a joint blacklist for exporters and importers of low-quality commodities, in addition to imposing sanctions on the exporter or the source found guilty of such practices.

“It took a long time until we reached this stage, during which the two sides reviewed international trade practices and took into account the experience of the European Union,” he said. “The agreement includes notifying the other party when punishment is incurred on the source and exchanging information on mutual findings. The two countries will also hold follow-up meetings to ensure that the agreement is being continuously implemented.”

The minister noted that the sanctions adopted in the convention would be subsumed under the system of penalties for commercial fraud, which is applied by the ministry. These include systems defamation, fines and other means of punishment within the same system. China will also apply these penalties.

According to Al-Rabiah, penalties prescribed in the system of commercial fraud in the Kingdom are considered very effective in reducing the number of cases of commercial fraud. He said that both sides will hold meetings every three months in Saudi Arabia with commercial attachés in China to ensure the implementation of the convention.

Abdullah Al-Mobty, president of the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC), described the agreement as one of many milestones in the history of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

According to Al-Mobty, the volume of trade between the two countries has reached $72 billion. He said trade includes hazardous imitation goods.

He urged Saudi businessmen to take precautionary measures in their business dealings and not to accept questionable goods.

He advised them to send representatives to China to ensure sound product specification and packaging and test samples before shipping. Al-Mobty also warned companies against relying on middlemen and brokers.

Authorities also discussed the idea of manufacturing Chinese products locally rather than relying solely on imports from China in order to support national industrial and commercial growth.

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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