Import duty, conformity, lead times and wholesale models. Written for distributors, retailers and interior professionals, with the figures checked rather than rounded.
Five percent duty, five percent VAT, no furniture specific certification and a port fifteen days from the factory. Why the Emirates are the easiest furniture market to enter in the region.
Saudi Arabia is the richer Gulf market and the heavier one to enter. The cost of entry is not the duty, it is the conformity paperwork on upholstered goods.
The compressed sofa is not a gimmick, it is a logistics decision that shows up in your storage cost, your delivery cost and your refusal rate at the customer's door.
Fifteen to twenty days to Jebel Ali, twenty to twenty eight to Dammam, about fifty to Europe. The distances that decide how a furniture programme should be built.
A brand that discounts online while asking a store to hold full price is not building a network, it is renting one until the first promotion.
The three models differ on one axis that decides everything else: who carries the stock, and therefore who carries the risk and the cash.
