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Costa Rica also is a member of the Cairns Group, [93] an organization of agricultural exporting countries that are seeking access to more markets to increase the exports of agricultural products. Opponents of free agricultural trade have sometimes attempted to block imports of products already grown in Costa Rica, including rice, potatoes, and ...
The Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER) is a Costa Rican governmental agency for investment and export promotion responsible for export promotion programs, attracting foreign direct investment, creating human talent development programs, and providing technical and financial support for the administration of Costa Rica's special export regimes.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade (Spanish: Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, COMEX) is the government ministry of Costa Rica responsible for defining and directing the country's external trade and foreign investment policy, as well as handling non-contentious international administration and representing the Costa Rican state abroad in trade and investment matters.
The economy of Costa Rica was considered impoverished until the introduction of coffee in the 1820s. Small farmers were important in the production of coffee but even then wealth from the cash crop was in the hands of the elite.
Real GDP per capita development in Costa Rica An Intel microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that was, at one time, responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 5% of the country's GDP The country has been considered economically stable with moderate inflation, estimated at 2.6% in 2017, [ 59 ] and moderately high growth in GDP, which ...
Exports of goods and services (US$ million) by country [1] Country Exports Year Top goods export (2021) [2] [needs update] ... Costa Rica: 28,092 2022 Medical instruments
This is the list of countries by trade-to-GDP ratio, i.e. the sum of exports and imports of goods and services, divided by gross domestic product, expressed as a percentage, based on the data published by World Bank. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Costa Rica and China signed a free trade agreement in 2010. [8] In 2018, Costa Rica joined the Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese global infrastructure project. [9] In 2021, Costa Rican exports to China were worth US$308 million, and Chinese foreign direct investment was worth $600,000. [1]