Costa Rica Trade Summary

2016 Data

Costa Rica exports, imports, tariff by year.

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TRADE SUMMARY FOR Costa Rica

Overall Exports and Imports

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Exports (in US$ Mil): 9,908
No. Of products: 2,917
No. Of partners: 149
Importsmore »
Imports (in US$ Mil): 15,322
No. Of products: 4,107
No. Of partners: 201

Top 5 Products exports imports at HS 6 digit level

Exports (US$ Thousands)  
Bananas, including p ...996,814.98
Needles, catheters, ...969,831.99
Pineapples, fresh or ...905,310.88
Instruments and appl ...724,510.61
Artificial parts of ...432,550.67
Imports (US$ Thousands)
Petroleum oils, etc, ...1,092,374.56
Other medicaments of ...474,509.07
Automobiles with rec ...449,451.03
Transmission apparat ...294,568.73
Other articles of pl ...172,295.20

Top 5 Export and Import partners

Market Trade (US$ Mil) Partner share(%)
United States4,058 40.96
Netherlands575 5.81
Panama561 5.66
Belgium532 5.37
Nicaragua517 5.22
Exporter Trade (US$ Mil) Partner share(%)
United States5,711 37.28
China2,082 13.59
Mexico1,067 6.96
Unspecified485 3.17
Guatemala417 2.72

Exports and Imports of Product Groups

Product Categories Exports Imports
Export(US$ Mil) Product share(%) Import(US$ Mil) Prod share(%) Weighted Average (%)
Raw materials2,999 30.27 898 5.86 3.32
Intermediate goods1,394 14.07 3,349 21.86 1.09
Consumer goods3,089 31.18 7,296 47.62 2.55
Capital goods2,426 24.48 3,779 24.67 0.99

Trade Indicators

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HH Market concentration index: 0.13
Index of export market penetration: 3.95
World Growth: -1.35
Country Growth: -0.82

Tariffs

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No Of Tariff Agreement: 24
Maximum Rate (%): 150
Simple Average (%): 3.81
Weighted Average (%): 1.78
Duty Free Imports (US$ Thousand): 10,897,363.50
Duty Free Tariff Lines Share (%): 61.21

Development Indicators

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GDP (current US$): 58,847
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$): 11,000.00
Trade Balance (% of GDP): 0.34
Trade Balance (current US$ Mil): 201.00
Trade in services (% of GDP): 20.33
Trade (% of GDP): 62.18