How dependent is Costa Rica on the United States?

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A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

• The United States sells 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 397.6 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 20.1% of what the world exports of medical and dental instruments; next come Mexico (10.9%), Germany (10.4%) and China (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 236.2 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.3% of what the world exports of plastic pipes and hoses; next come Germany (13.9%), China (13.1%) and Italy (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 112.6 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 15.3% of what the world exports of other plastic articles; next come China (24.1%), Germany (12.7%) and France (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 549.7 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 8.4% of what the world exports of uncoated paper; next come Germany (17.3%), Malaysia (5.4%) and France (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 81.3 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 23.9% of what the world exports of corn; next come Brazil (19.5%), Argentina (16.3%) and Ukraine (13.1%). The rest of the world exported 229.2 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 2,902.6 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.2% of what the world exports of orthopedic and hearing devices; next come Ireland (11%), Switzerland (9.5%) and Germany (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 584.7 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4.4% of what the world exports of microchips; next come Taiwan (23.7%), China (17.7%) and South Korea (16.9%). The rest of the world exported 9,553.9 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.3% of what the world exports of stainless steel wire; next come India (16.6%), China (12.7%) and South Korea (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 22.8 times what Costa Rica buys from the United States.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Costa Rica is the United States’ 37th-largest customer, with 0.46% of its exports.

• Trade between Costa Rica and the United States
• Who does Costa Rica rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Costa Rica on China
• Trade profile of Costa Rica
• Trade profile of the United States
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.