Costa Rica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2011 - 2022

Exports structure from Costa Rica in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 37% (5.73 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 14.5% (2.22 billion US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 5.73% (878 million US$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
• 4.27% (655 million US$): 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
• 3.04% (466 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.88% (442 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
• 2.49% (381 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 2.15% (329 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 2.13% (327 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.1% (322 million US$): 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 2022?

Costa Rica's Top Exports in 2022:

• 28% ($4.3 billion): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 7.75% ($1.18 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.
• 6.81% ($1.04 billion): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 6.64% ($1.01 billion): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried
• 4.85% ($743 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
• 2.45% ($376 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 1.59% ($243 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
• 1.58% ($242 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
• 1.5% ($231 million): 4011 - New pneumatic tyres, of rubber
• 1.48% ($227 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

Imports structure to Costa Rica in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 12.7% (2.69 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.65% (1.83 billion US$): 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
• 8.61% (1.82 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.87% (1.66 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 5.47% (1.15 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.92% (1.04 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 4.86% (1.02 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.29% (907 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 4.17% (883 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.37% (502 million US$): 10 - Cereals

What did Costa Rica import in 2022?

Costa Rica's Top Imports in 2022:

• 11.7% ($2.48 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
• 3.36% ($710 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
• 3.09% ($654 million): 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
• 2.83% ($599 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 2.28% ($482 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
• 1.93% ($408 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
• 1.78% ($377 million): 4805 - Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.s., in rolls or sheets
• 1.38% ($292 million): 1005 - Maize (corn)
• 1.27% ($269 million): 3923 - Articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics; stoppers, lids, caps and other closures, of plastics
• 1.11% ($235 million): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc