Costa Rica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Netweight (kg); Quantity and Value (US$) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from Costa Rica in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 29% (3.28 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 19.9% (2.24 billion US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 4.96% (558 million US$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
• 4.41% (496 million US$): 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
• 3.45% (388 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.33% (374 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
• 2.89% (326 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 2.8% (316 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.53% (285 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 1.79% (202 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard

What did Costa Rica export in 2018?

Costa Rica's Top Exports in 2018:

• 21% ($2.45 billion): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments.
• 9.26% ($1.04 billion): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried.
• 9.16% ($1.03 billion): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried.
• 6.29% ($707 million): 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.
• 3.84% ($433 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included.
• 2.83% ($318 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 1.73% ($195 million): 4011 - New pneumatic tyres, of rubber.
• 1.62% ($182 million): 2009 - Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
• 1.62% ($182 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.
• 1.57% ($177 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.

Imports structure to Costa Rica in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 10.3% (1.71 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.1% (1.67 billion US$): 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
• 9.09% (1.5 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 8.13% (1.34 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 6.8% (1.12 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.68% (776 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.35% (720 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 3.83% (634 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.73% (618 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.68% (444 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Costa Rica import in 2018?

Costa Rica's Top Imports in 2018:

• 9.4% ($1.55 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 3.87% ($641 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.
• 3.54% ($586 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.
• 2.96% ($491 million): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
• 1.91% ($317 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.
• 1.91% ($316 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments.
• 1.73% ($286 million): 4805 - Other uncoated paper and paperboard, in rolls or sheets, not further worked or processed than as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter.
• 1.31% ($218 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14.
• 1.27% ($210 million): 3923 - Articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics; stoppers, lids, caps and other closures, of plastics.
• 1.17% ($195 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.