Costa Rica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

Exports structure from Costa Rica in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 33% (3.92 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 18.7% (2.17 billion US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 5.24% (610 million US$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
• 3.68% (428 million US$): 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
• 3.27% (381 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.04% (354 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.98% (346 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
• 2.92% (340 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 1.94% (226 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 1.65% (192 million US$): 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 2020?

Costa Rica's Top Exports in 2020:

• 26% ($3.09 billion): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 9.31% ($1.08 billion): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried
• 7.98% ($927 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 5.17% ($601 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.
• 4.19% ($487 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
• 2.83% ($328 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 1.48% ($172 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
• 1.46% ($169 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
• 1.39% ($162 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
• 1.31% ($152 million): 4011 - New pneumatic tyres, of rubber

Imports structure to Costa Rica in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 9.89% (1.43 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 9.58% (1.38 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 8.44% (1.22 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 6.47% (936 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.33% (915 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 5.85% (845 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.79% (693 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.07% (589 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 3.17% (458 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.6% (376 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Costa Rica import in 2020?

Costa Rica's Top Imports in 2020:

• 5.81% ($841 million): 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
• 4.02% ($582 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
• 2.91% ($420 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
• 2.62% ($378 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 2.51% ($363 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
• 2.31% ($334 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
• 1.61% ($233 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14
• 1.55% ($224 million): 4805 - Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.s., in rolls or sheets
• 1.54% ($223 million): 9030 - Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations.
• 1.4% ($203 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