# Costa Rica exports to Thailand: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

Understand reported exports from Costa Rica to Thailand, the product routes that need a closer look, and the conditions that may affect planning.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/corridor/CRI-THA/risk

## Route overview

In 2024, Costa Rica reported $40.8M in goods exports to Thailand. The overall review level is High attention.

## How to read this page

High attention means one or more conditions on these product types deserve a closer look. It is not a prediction that trade will stop or that a loss is certain. An HS6 code is the international six-digit code used to describe and compare traded goods.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value | What it means |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Latest reported exports | $40.8M | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 85.5% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 0 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 9 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 1.1 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 14.6% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 901839 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances: catheters, cannulae and the like | $212.4M | 0% | High attention |
| 2 | 902139 | Artificial parts of the body: excluding artificial joints | $113.0M | 35.2% | High attention |
| 3 | 760200 | Aluminium: waste and scrap | $1.5B | 47.1% | High attention |
| 4 | 901890 | Medical, surgical or dental instruments and appliances: n.e.c. in heading no. 9018 | $492.0M | 0% | High attention |
| 5 | 854442 | Insulated electric conductors: for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts, fitted with connectors | $597.8M | 0% | High attention |
| 6 | 720449 | Ferrous waste and scrap: n.e.s. in heading no. 7204 | $470.4M | 83.8% | High attention |
| 7 | 854470 | Insulated electric conductors: optical fibre cables | $125.4M | 0% | High attention |
| 8 | 901910 | Mechano-therapy appliances: massage apparatus and psychological aptitude-testing apparatus | $54.2M | 0% | High attention |
| 9 | 300610 | Pharmaceutical goods: sterile surgical catgut, suture materials, tissue adhesives, laminaria, laminaria tents, absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics, and surgical or dental adhesion barriers | $26.7M | 0% | High attention |
| 10 | 382100 | Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells | $32.8M | 0% | Watch |

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-29). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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