Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2022
Timeseries: 194 million
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Costa Rica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESCosta RicaWorldExportsValue (US$)8,927,618,673.009,744,538,493.008,836,344,677.009,044,840,676.0010,222,241,025.0011,250,803,893.0011,472,063,524.0011,242,661,045.009,578,337,782.009,907,873,818.0011,296,640,428.7311,251,781,448.19
Value Growth, YoY (%)23.059.15-9.322.3513.0110.061.96-1.99-14.803.4414.01-0.39
ImportsValue (US$)12,757,849,001.0015,289,400,229.0011,550,460,954.0013,920,243,832.0018,263,804,971.0018,355,992,786.0018,124,469,250.0017,184,912,679.0015,504,422,756.0015,321,512,292.0016,352,350,364.3816,563,019,255.69
Value Growth, YoY (%)15.2419.84-24.4520.5131.200.50-1.26-5.18-9.77-1.176.721.28

The value of merchandise exports from Costa Rica totalled $ 11.2 billion in 2018. Overall commodity exports from Costa Rica decreased by 0.397% compared to 2017. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 44 million (the value of merchandise exports from Costa Rica amounted to $11.2 billion in 2017)

Costa Rica's exports 2018 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Costa Rica in 2018:

  • USA with a share of 41% (4.62 billion US$)
  • Netherlands with a share of 6.03% (679 million US$)
  • Belgium with a share of 6% (675 million US$)
  • Panama with a share of 5.16% (580 million US$)
  • Guatemala with a share of 5.07% (570 million US$)
  • Nicaragua with a share of 4.27% (481 million US$)
  • Honduras with a share of 3.5% (394 million US$)
  • El Salvador with a share of 2.62% (295 million US$)
  • Mexico with a share of 2.53% (284 million US$)
  • Dominican Republic with a share of 2.15% (242 million US$)

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$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
  • 4.6% (518 million US$): 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
  • 3.33% (374 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
  • 3.26% (367 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 2.89% (326 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
  • 2.8% (316 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 2.53% (285 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
  • 1.59% (179 million US$): 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 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 or nut juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented, not containing added spirit; whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
  • 1.62% ($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

The value of merchandise imports to Costa Rica totalled $ 16.5 billion in 2018. Merchandise imports to Costa Rica increased by 1.28% compared to 2017. Goods imports grew up by $ 210 million in 2018 (the value of merchandise imports to Costa Rica was equal to $16.3 billion in 2017)

Costa Rica's imports 2018 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Costa Rica in 2018:

  • USA with a share of 39% (6.47 billion US$)
  • China with a share of 13.7% (2.27 billion US$)
  • Mexico with a share of 7.04% (1.16 billion US$)
  • Guatemala with a share of 2.5% (415 million US$)
  • Germany with a share of 2.5% (414 million US$)
  • Areas, nes with a share of 2.48% (412 million US$)
  • Japan with a share of 2.24% (372 million US$)
  • Brazil with a share of 2.11% (349 million US$)
  • Colombia with a share of 1.85% (307 million US$)
  • Hong Kong with a share of 1.75% (290 million US$)

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

  • 10.3% (1.71 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 10.2% (1.69 billion US$): 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
  • 9.04% (1.49 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 8.07% (1.33 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 6.8% (1.12 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 4.69% (776 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 4.12% (683 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
  • 3.83% (634 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 3.71% (614 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 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
  • 3.87% ($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
  • 3.02% ($500 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
  • 1.91% ($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 - Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.s., in rolls or sheets
  • 1.68% ($278 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
  • 1.27% ($210 million): 3923 - Articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics; stoppers, lids, caps and other closures, of plastics
  • 1.24% ($206 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14
  • 1.17% ($195 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods

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Costa Rica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018