Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Costa Rica's import sources for HS product codes where a single source country accounts for >= 80% of total imports and the import value is >= 10,000,000 USD. Only data for the most recent available year is displayed. If you want more data, visit the Country Matrix.
Costa Rica
25 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicaragua | 0201 | Meat of bovine animals; fresh or chilled | 2024 | 100.00% | 28,505,865 |
| 2 | USA | 2713 | Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen; other residues of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2024 | 100.00% | 10,063,120 |
| 3 | USA | 5201 | Cotton; not carded or combed | 2024 | 100.00% | 34,335,394 |
| 4 | USA | 2714 | Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and asphaltic rocks | 2024 | 99.97% | 30,974,083 |
| 5 | USA | 2303 | Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2024 | 99.92% | 23,663,177 |
| 6 | USA | 3001 | Glands and other organs (extracts, secretions thereof) for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, powdered or not; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances for therapeutic or prophylactic uses n.e.c. | 2024 | 97.54% | 15,187,350 |
| 7 | USA | 2843 | Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals | 2024 | 97.30% | 10,927,294 |
| 8 | China | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2024 | 96.57% | 16,553,984 |
| 9 | China | 7225 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width 600mm or more | 2024 | 94.66% | 108,758,846 |
| 10 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2024 | 93.60% | 138,203,879 |
| 11 | USA | 0207 | Meat and edible offal of poultry; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. fowls of the species Gallus domesticus), fresh, chilled or frozen | 2024 | 93.56% | 39,857,100 |
| 12 | USA | 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products | 2024 | 93.45% | 20,022,077 |
| 13 | Mexico | 2402 | Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes; of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes | 2024 | 92.34% | 15,336,509 |
| 14 | USA | 2304 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2024 | 91.68% | 58,168,997 |
| 15 | USA | 4805 | Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.c., in rolls or sheets | 2024 | 90.96% | 253,634,646 |
| 16 | Türkiye | 7228 | Alloy steel bars, rods, shapes and sections; hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or non-alloy steel | 2024 | 88.97% | 56,652,065 |
| 17 | USA | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2024 | 87.51% | 73,298,718 |
| 18 | USA | 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | 2024 | 86.09% | 101,924,628 |
| 19 | USA | 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 | 2024 | 84.26% | 1,906,547,361 |
| 20 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2024 | 83.98% | 18,836,209 |
| 21 | Chile | 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2024 | 83.71% | 42,061,251 |
| 22 | USA | 7115 | Articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2024 | 83.58% | 60,645,091 |
| 23 | USA | 0406 | Cheese and curd | 2024 | 82.88% | 46,446,472 |
| 24 | USA | 3908 | Polyamides in primary forms | 2024 | 82.77% | 12,879,493 |
| 25 | USA | 7505 | Nickel; bars, rods, profiles and wire | 2024 | 82.00% | 12,119,286 |
USA: 18 occurrences
China: 3 occurrences
Chile: 1 occurrence
Mexico: 1 occurrence
Nicaragua: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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