Amazon.ae Seller Compliance: Licence, Registration, Labels

Amazon has confirmed it on its own Seller Central forums, in a moderator’s reply to a UAE seller: sellers in the Emirates must submit a valid UAE trade licence for verification — a mainland licence, a free zone licence, or the DED E-Trader licence for Dubai sellers all qualify — with a 45-day window from notification and account deactivation stated as the consequence of missing it. The general deadline passed at the end of 2025 and enforcement is live; sellers on the UAE marketplace are already reporting deactivations. And the licence is only Amazon’s half of the bargain: the marketplace’s product-safety policy makes you responsible for products that comply with all applicable laws — which, in the UAE, means the two layers below.

A verified licence keeps your account alive; it does not make your catalogue legal. Consumer products sold in Dubai must be registered with Dubai Municipality before they are placed on the market — cosmetics, personal care, perfumes, supplements and detergents run through Montaji, with Abu Dhabi running its own registration through the QCC Jawdah portal — and regulated categories additionally need the federal ECAS certificate of conformity for customs clearance. Labels carry their own rules: Arabic or Arabic/English information panels and dates printed by the manufacturer, detailed in our Arabic labeling guide. Nothing at listing time asks for your registration certificate — the obligation comes from UAE market rules, not from Amazon’s form — and UAE guidance warns of product seizure and fines for unregistered goods, which is a bad discovery to make with inventory already in a Dubai warehouse.

Step one is the licence Amazon is asking for: an e-commerce-capable trade licence — compare trading-friendly zones such as SPC Free Zone and IFZA. Step two is the catalogue, per product: Dubai Municipality registration through Montaji — our filing service from AED 990 per product, or the full file from AED 1,490 covering document intake, GSO compliance findings, bilingual label review and filing follow-up, with supplements from AED 2,900. Government fees sit on their own lines, never bundled into the service number. If Amazon’s notification is what brought you here, start with the licence; if the licence is done and the catalogue is the problem, start with the registration — and see what registration really costs before you compare quotes.