Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
61 450 12 331 -2.6 3 830 31.1
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
82 58 64 40
Imports
82 58 85 60
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 12 174 14 942 2020 0.07
Share in world total exports (%)
2010-2020 3 1
2019 3 -4
2020 4 -15 2020 0.08
Share in world total imports (%)
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 39.7
Fuels and mining products: 1.4
Agricultural products: 14.2
Fuels and mining products: 12
Manufactures: 55.7
Other: 3.2
Manufactures: 73.5
Other: 0.3
By main destination, % (2019)
By main origin, % (2019)
United States of America: 42.3 Guatemala: 5.2 Nicaragua: 4
European Union: 19.2 Panama: 5.2 Other: 24.2
United States of America: 38.4 European Union: 10.2 Guatemala: 2.5
China: 13.2 Mexico: 6.8 Other: 29
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS0803 HS0804 HS2106 HS0901 HS2009
2019 . 1 000 987 471 279 150
Bananas, including plantains Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados Other food preparations Coffee Fruit juices and vegetable juices
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1005 HS2106 HS2309 HS1201 HS1905
2019
Maize (corn) Other food preparations Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding Soya beans, whether or not broken Bread, pastry, other bakers' wares
193 179 101 97 78
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS0803
HS1005
HS0804
HS2106
HS2106
HS2309
HS0901
HS1201
HS2009
HS1905
5%
10%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 4 546 2 042
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 4 5
2018 -6 -2
2019 -3 0
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS9018 HS9021 HS4011 HS8544 HS3004
2019
Instruments for medical sciences Orthopaedic appliances New pneumatic tyres, of rubber Insulated electric conductors Medicaments in measured doses
2 769 680 197 167 165
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS2710 HS3004 HS8703 HS8525 HS9018
2019
Petroleum oils, other than crude Medicaments in measured doses Motor cars for transport of persons Radio-telephony transmission tools Instruments for medical sciences
1 562 583 544 451 378
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
88
Imports 50%
0%
HS9018
HS2710
HS9021
HS3004
HS4011
HS8703
HS8544
HS8525
HS3004
HS9018
5%
10%
15%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 6 906 14 065
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 2 2
2018 4 2
2019 5 -3
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Costa Rica TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
6 814 3 407 2020 0.14
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
6 7
-29 -18
3 6
2020 0.07
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 4.2 Other commercial services: 73.1
Travel: 19.8 Goods-related services: 2.9
Transport: 31.5 Other commercial services: 59.9
By main destination
Travel: 8.6 Goods-related services: 0.1
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$, 2014)
Annual percentage change
2017 6 934 256
2010-2017 na na
2016 na na
2017 na na
Transport Costa Rica
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
2020 285 1 074
Exports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
Value 170 280 29
2010-2020 -4 3
Share (%)
Annual percentage change 2019 -1 4
Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
34.3 56.5 5.7
2020 -42 -10
Value
Share (%)
537 492 135
44.8 41.0 11.3
Travel Costa Rica
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 1 347 292
2010-2020 -5 -4
Annual percentage change 2019 6 11
2020 -66 -73
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2020) 1.6
0.2
70.6
2020
2010-2020
Other commercial services Exports 4 982 Imports 2 039
Other business services ICTs
27.6
Value
Financial services
10 12
2020
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
Annual percentage change
2010-2020
199 2
-9 -1
2019
2020
7 6
3 9
2019
2020
-1 -50
-11 4
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2019 Residents
16
Non-residents
483
Trademark applications, 2019 Total
499
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
7 101
Non-residents
4 681
Industrial design applications, 2019 Total
11 782
Residents
11
Non-residents
62
Total
73
89