Costa Rica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from Costa Rica in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 42% (7.6 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 13.9% (2.53 billion US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 5.56% (1 billion US$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
• 4.44% (804 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 2.87% (519 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.43% (440 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
• 2.27% (412 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 1.98% (359 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 1.92% (348 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 1.72% (312 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

What did Costa Rica export in 2023?

Costa Rica's Top Exports in 2023:

• 31% ($5.68 billion): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 8.94% ($1.61 billion): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
• 6.56% ($1.18 billion): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried
• 6.51% ($1.18 billion): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 4.58% ($829 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
• 1.94% ($351 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 1.47% ($267 million): 8544 - Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors
• 1.43% ($260 million): 4011 - New pneumatic tyres, of rubber
• 1.3% ($236 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 1.15% ($208 million): 2009 - Fruit or nut juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented, not containing added spirit; whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

Imports structure to Costa Rica in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 11.4% (2.58 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.76% (2.19 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 8.67% (1.95 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.7% (1.73 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 7.41% (1.67 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.75% (1.29 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 4.6% (1.03 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.43% (772 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 3.4% (766 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.68% (605 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Costa Rica import in 2023?

Costa Rica's Top Imports in 2023:

• 10.7% ($2.43 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 4.44% ($1 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
• 3.64% ($820 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 2.99% ($675 million): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 2.53% ($569 million): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
• 1.42% ($321 million): 1005 - Maize (corn)
• 1.42% ($320 million): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
• 1.4% ($315 million): 3917 - Tubes, pipes and hoses, and fittings therefor (for example, joints, elbows, flanges), of plastics
• 1.33% ($300 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.26% ($283 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14