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
30 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 2025 | 100.00% | 70,197,162 |
| 2 | USA | 2714 | Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and asphaltic rocks | 2025 | 99.98% | 38,008,595 |
| 3 | USA | 5201 | Cotton; not carded or combed | 2025 | 99.98% | 33,156,887 |
| 4 | Nicaragua | 0201 | Meat of bovine animals; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 99.97% | 33,088,415 |
| 5 | USA | 1201 | Soya beans, whether or not broken | 2025 | 99.96% | 125,889,552 |
| 6 | 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 | 2025 | 99.92% | 23,749,585 |
| 7 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 99.19% | 139,274,741 |
| 8 | USA | 2843 | Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals | 2025 | 98.71% | 20,670,615 |
| 9 | USA | 4703 | Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades | 2025 | 97.47% | 11,067,465 |
| 10 | Spain | 7413 | Copper; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, not electrically insulated | 2025 | 97.31% | 12,585,390 |
| 11 | China | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 97.10% | 21,896,405 |
| 12 | 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. | 2025 | 96.54% | 20,939,075 |
| 13 | USA | 7115 | Articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 96.51% | 77,047,276 |
| 14 | China | 7225 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width 600mm or more | 2025 | 95.41% | 179,326,220 |
| 15 | Mexico | 2402 | Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes; of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes | 2025 | 93.91% | 14,056,583 |
| 16 | USA | 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products | 2025 | 93.65% | 22,209,629 |
| 17 | USA | 3908 | Polyamides in primary forms | 2025 | 91.60% | 11,178,521 |
| 18 | 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 | 2025 | 91.29% | 1,787,973,278 |
| 19 | Netherlands | 0601 | Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes; dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading no. 1212 | 2025 | 90.87% | 11,967,038 |
| 20 | 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 | 2025 | 90.71% | 42,161,695 |
| 21 | USA | 4805 | Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.c., in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 89.91% | 279,684,494 |
| 22 | USA | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2025 | 89.48% | 10,015,473 |
| 23 | USA | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2025 | 88.77% | 73,091,923 |
| 24 | Türkiye | 7228 | Alloy steel bars, rods, shapes and sections; hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or non-alloy steel | 2025 | 87.90% | 46,607,950 |
| 25 | USA | 0406 | Cheese and curd | 2025 | 83.56% | 63,601,011 |
| 26 | USA | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 82.91% | 243,724,534 |
| 27 | USA | 7110 | Platinum; unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 82.35% | 12,074,591 |
| 28 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 82.16% | 19,825,873 |
| 29 | China | 7615 | Aluminium; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2025 | 80.68% | 12,297,108 |
| 30 | Chile | 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2025 | 80.19% | 49,673,811 |
USA: 20 occurrences
China: 4 occurrences
Chile: 1 occurrence
Mexico: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
Nicaragua: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
ABCBold red partner name - the import source country is flagged in the Danger Zone.
1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.