Costa Rica Trade Summary

2018 Data

Costa Rica exports, imports, tariff by year.
Costa Rica monthly trade data

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TRADE SUMMARY FOR Costa Rica

Overall Exports and Imports

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Exports (in US$ Mil): 11,252
No. Of products: 2,850
No. Of partners: 152
Importsmore »
Imports (in US$ Mil): 16,563
No. Of products: 4,084
No. Of partners: 196

Top 5 Products exports imports at HS 6 digit level

Exports (US$ Thousands)  
Needles, catheters, ...1,315,221.64
Pineapples, fresh or ...1,038,151.82
Bananas, including p ...1,030,913.78
Instruments and appl ...841,998.28
Artificial parts of ...606,604.00
Imports (US$ Thousands)
Petroleum oils, etc, ...1,557,887.31
Other medicaments of ...481,214.28
Transmission apparat ...470,334.49
Automobiles with rec ...316,392.32
Other articles of pl ...207,194.56

Top 5 Export and Import partners

Market Trade (US$ Mil) Partner share(%)
United States4,625 41.10
Netherlands679 6.03
Belgium675 6.00
Panama581 5.16
Guatemala571 5.07
Exporter Trade (US$ Mil) Partner share(%)
United States6,476 39.10
China2,271 13.71
Mexico1,167 7.05
Guatemala415 2.51
Germany415 2.50

Exports and Imports of Product Groups

Product Categories Exports Imports
Export(US$ Mil) Product share(%) Import(US$ Mil) Prod share(%) Weighted Average (%)
Raw materials3,272 29.08 932 5.63 5.12
Intermediate goods1,750 15.56 3,919 23.66 1.12
Consumer goods3,237 28.77 7,867 47.50 2.39
Capital goods2,992 26.59 3,845 23.21 0.77

Trade Indicators

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HH Market concentration index: 0.13
Index of export market penetration: 3.97
World Growth: 4.91
Country Growth: 2.61

Tariffs

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No Of Tariff Agreement: 22
Maximum Rate (%): 150
Simple Average (%): 3.47
Weighted Average (%): 1.80
Duty Free Imports (US$ Thousand): 10,470,198.70
Duty Free Tariff Lines Share (%): 63.60

Development Indicators

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GDP (current US$): 62,420
GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$): 11,880.00
Trade Balance (% of GDP): 0.53
Trade Balance (current US$ Mil): 332.00
Trade in services (% of GDP): 22.37
Trade (% of GDP): 66.95