# Costa Rica Agriculture and food Export Opportunities (HS 01-24)

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Explore Costa Rica HS 01-24 agriculture and food export opportunities, product portfolio, buyer markets, growth signals, and diversification opportunities.

## Overview

- Exporter: Costa Rica (CRI)
- Sector: Agriculture and food
- HS chapters: HS 01-24
- Latest trade year: 2024
- Sector exports: $493.5M
- Products: 51
- Buyer markets: 14
- Average CAGR: +27.4%
- Global sector size: $180.9B

## Product portfolio

| Product | Global size | Your exports | Opportunity | CAGR | Markets | Share |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| HS 020230 - Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, frozen | $16.3B | $68.0M | $14.4B | +33.7% | 3 | +0.4% |
| HS 210690 - Food preparations: n.e.s. in item no. 2106.10 | $17.2B | $92.8M | $9.5B | +26.2% | 5 | +1.3% |
| HS 220300 - Beer: made from malt | $8.7B | $300.2K | $8.5B | -9.0% | 2 | +0.0% |
| HS 190590 - Food preparations: bakers' wares n.e.c. in heading no. 1605, whether or not containing cocoa: communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice papers and similar products | $9.1B | $4.7M | $7.2B | +14.5% | 2 | +0.0% |
| HS 220890 - Spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages: n.e.c. in heading no. 2208 | $4.9B | $616.8 | $6.6B | -10.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 030617 - Crustaceans: frozen, shrimps and prawns, excluding cold-water varieties, in shell or not, smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking: in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water | $9.1B | $290.4K | $6.2B | -11.4% | 2 | +0.0% |
| HS 080440 - Fruit, edible: avocados, fresh or dried | $3.7B | $23.6 | $5.9B | -16.7% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 090111 - Coffee: not roasted or decaffeinated | $14.8B | $228.2M | $5.8B | +0.7% | 4 | +1.6% |
| HS 070200 - Vegetables: tomatoes, fresh or chilled | $5.4B | $110.4K | $4.6B | +9.1% | 2 | +0.0% |
| HS 020130 - Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, fresh or chilled | $6.0B | $14.1M | $4.1B | -1.4% | 2 | +0.2% |
| HS 220421 - Wine: still, in containers holding 2 litres or less | $9.3B | $21.4K | $4.0B | -1.0% | 3 | +0.0% |
| HS 120190 - Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $4.6B | $2.0K | $3.9B | +12.6% | 2 | +0.0% |
| HS 170114 - Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, other than as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $2.6B | $32.8M | $2.8B | -17.0% | 2 | +2.0% |
| HS 240220 - Cigarettes: containing tobacco | $3.2B | $6.2K | $2.7B | +15.4% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 090121 - Coffee: roasted, not decaffeinated | $3.9B | $4.0M | $2.6B | -3.2% | 2 | +0.1% |
| HS 200410 - Vegetable preparations: potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen | $2.2B | $22.6K | $2.5B | +54.0% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 230910 - Dog or cat food: put up for retail sale, used in animal feeding | $3.7B | $9.3M | $2.2B | +93.1% | 2 | +0.2% |
| HS 030441 - Fish fillets: fresh or chilled, salmon, Pacific (Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), Atlantic (Salmo salar), Danube (Hucho hucho) | $2.6B | $10.6K | $2.2B | +31.0% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 151800 - Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions: oxidised, boiled or otherwise chemically modified, (excluding those of heading no. 1516), inedible mixtures or preparations of fats or oils | $2.4B | $104.8K | $2.1B | +7.7% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 170290 - Sugars: n.e.c. in heading no. 1702, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing, in the dry state, 50% by weight of fructose | $1.2B | $3.6 | $2.0B | -21.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 151190 - Vegetable oils: palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $1.6B | $54.6K | $2.0B | +31.8% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 070960 - Vegetables: fruits of the genus capsicum or of the genus pimenta | $2.2B | $3.6K | $1.9B | -13.7% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 020714 - Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen | $2.6B | $6.8K | $1.8B | -10.8% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 081020 - Fruit, edible: raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries, fresh | $1.2B | $16.4 | $1.7B | -32.9% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 190531 - Food preparations: sweet biscuits, whether or not containing cocoa | $2.4B | $9.2M | $1.6B | +17.1% | 1 | +0.4% |
| HS 220830 - Whiskies | $2.1B | $5.6 | $1.5B | -18.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 170490 - Sugar confectionery: (excluding chewing gum, including white chocolate), not containing cocoa | $3.2B | $1.6M | $1.5B | +4.2% | 1 | +0.1% |
| HS 180100 - Cocoa beans: whole or broken, raw or roasted | $3.7B | $269.5K | $1.4B | +77.8% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 180620 - Chocolate & other food preparations containing cocoa: in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, content exceeding 2kg | $1.4B | $440.8K | $1.4B | +4.7% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 060290 - Plants, live: n.e.s. in heading no. 0602 | $1.5B | $1.3M | $1.3B | +3.4% | 1 | +0.1% |
| HS 230400 - Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | $970.4M | $108.6K | $1.3B | +75.6% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 240210 - Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos: containing tobacco including the weight of every band, wrapper or attachment thereto | $1.5B | $1.9M | $1.3B | +22.4% | 1 | +0.1% |
| HS 081010 - Fruit, edible: strawberries, fresh | $957.9M | $99.3K | $1.3B | +10.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 081190 - Fruit, edible: fruit and nuts n.e.s. in heading no. 0811, uncooked or cooked, frozen whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $849.7M | $19.5K | $1.2B | +0.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 230330 - Brewing or distilling dregs and waste: whether or not in the form of pellets | $663.0M | $163.5K | $1.2B | +78.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 180400 - Cocoa: butter, fat and oil | $1.9B | $943.0 | $1.2B | +1229.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 030614 - Crustaceans: crabs, frozen (whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked by steaming or by boiling in water) | $1.0B | $146.2K | $1.1B | +27.0% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 020649 - Offal, edible: of swine, (other than livers), frozen | $2.2B | $178.8K | $1.1B | +31.7% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 180310 - Cocoa: paste, not defatted | $952.0M | $1.3K | $1.1B | -23.9% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 060319 - Flowers, cut: flowers and buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or ornamental purposes, fresh, other than roses, carnations, orchids, or chrysanthemums | $1.3B | $8.4M | $1.1B | +3.8% | 1 | +0.6% |
| HS 080550 - Fruit, edible: lemons (Citrus limon, Citrus limonum), limes (Citrus aurantifolia , Citrus latifolia), fresh or dried | $1.0B | $7.8K | $1.1B | +1.2% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 220410 - Wine: sparkling | $1.7B | $125.7 | $1.1B | -2.9% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 070700 - Vegetables: cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled | $1.4B | $5.7K | $1.1B | +4.4% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 180690 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa: n.e.c. in chapter 18 | $1.9B | $2.6M | $1.0B | +18.8% | 1 | +0.1% |
| HS 040510 - Dairy produce: derived from milk, butter | $735.1M | $721.0 | $997.3M | -19.4% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 100630 - Cereals: rice, semi-milled or wholly milled, whether or not polished or glazed | $1.4B | $5.6 | $996.7M | -2.0% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 120510 - Oil seeds: low erucic acid rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken | $2.5B | $23.4 | $992.0M | -85.9% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 200912 - Juice: orange, not frozen, of a Brix value not exceeding 20, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $790.6M | $1.4K | $985.5M | +54.3% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 080610 - Fruit, edible: grapes, fresh | $2.1B | $2.5K | $969.6M | +11.8% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 020329 - Meat: of swine, n.e.s. in item no. 0203.2, frozen | $1.7B | $17.0K | $900.5M | -93.8% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 070993 - Vegetables: pumpkins, squash and gourds (Cucurbita spp.), fresh or chilled | $522.0M | $12.1M | $874.6M | +71.7% | 1 | +2.3% |

## Best markets

- USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (USA): $78.7B calculated opportunity across 36 products.
- China (CHN): $25.9B calculated opportunity across 9 products.
- Germany (DEU): $12.2B calculated opportunity across 9 products.
- Mexico (MEX): $7.3B calculated opportunity across 5 products.
- Canada (CAN): $3.7B calculated opportunity across 2 products.
- France (FRA): $2.0B calculated opportunity across 2 products.
- Netherlands (NLD): $1.4B calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- United Kingdom (GBR): $1.1B calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Poland (POL): $1.1B calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Morocco (MAR): $1.1B calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Viet Nam (VNM): $1.1B calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Italy (ITA): $1.1B calculated opportunity across 1 products.

## Growth stars

- HS 180400: +1229.1% average CAGR, $1.2B calculated opportunity.
- HS 230910: +93.1% average CAGR, $2.2B calculated opportunity.
- HS 230330: +78.1% average CAGR, $1.2B calculated opportunity.
- HS 180100: +77.8% average CAGR, $1.4B calculated opportunity.
- HS 230400: +75.6% average CAGR, $1.3B calculated opportunity.
- HS 070993: +71.7% average CAGR, $874.6M calculated opportunity.
- HS 200912: +54.3% average CAGR, $985.5M calculated opportunity.
- HS 200410: +54.0% average CAGR, $2.5B calculated opportunity.
- HS 020230: +33.7% average CAGR, $14.4B calculated opportunity.
- HS 151190: +31.8% average CAGR, $2.0B calculated opportunity.

## Diversification opportunities

- HS 210690: 5 buyer markets, $9.5B calculated opportunity.
- HS 090111: 4 buyer markets, $5.8B calculated opportunity.
- HS 020230: 3 buyer markets, $14.4B calculated opportunity.
- HS 220421: 3 buyer markets, $4.0B calculated opportunity.
- HS 220300: 2 buyer markets, $8.5B calculated opportunity.
- HS 190590: 2 buyer markets, $7.2B calculated opportunity.
- HS 030617: 2 buyer markets, $6.2B calculated opportunity.
- HS 070200: 2 buyer markets, $4.6B calculated opportunity.
- HS 020130: 2 buyer markets, $4.1B calculated opportunity.
- HS 120190: 2 buyer markets, $3.9B calculated opportunity.

## Method

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## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-30). [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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