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Costa Rica imports of Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet (HS 1212)

Where Costa Rica buys locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 1212 · Costa Rica trade profile

Costa Rica imports, 2024USD 1.4 millionSum over 20 supplying economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
Costa Rica imports, 2023USD 873,587Same partners, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth+56.3%2024 against 2023, USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 2,525 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (100.0% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.
Trade companies in the directory5,717Active companies in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in this economy, counts only. Source: AYBARION company directory, see the Data Passport.

Top suppliers

#SupplierValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1SpainUSD 540,67239.6%+323.0%BACI:CR:ES:1212:1:2024
2ChinaUSD 393,79528.8%+11.4%BACI:CR:CN:1212:1:2024
3HungaryUSD 118,1258.7%not availableBACI:CR:HU:1212:1:2024
4United StatesUSD 83,3086.1%−60.9%BACI:CR:US:1212:1:2024
5United KingdomUSD 68,5745.0%+1.3%BACI:CR:GB:1212:1:2024
6IrelandUSD 53,3213.9%−18.2%BACI:CR:IE:1212:1:2024
7AustraliaUSD 41,9523.1%not availableBACI:CR:AU:1212:1:2024
8BrazilUSD 37,8892.8%+176.9%BACI:CR:BR:1212:1:2024
9PanamaUSD 14,3861.1%not availableBACI:CR:PA:1212:1:2024
10TaiwanUSD 5,1940.4%−19.8%BACI:CR:TW:1212:1:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (growth against 2023), USD. Shares of the Costa Rica total over the partners BACI lists. Record IDs per row.

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in Costa Rica, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of grain, unmanufactured tobacco, seeds and animal feeds (NACE 4621). Counts only.

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Data Passport

  • CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
  • AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-25. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
  • Method: Values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows of Costa Rica with each partner, aggregated from HS6 to HS4; the total is the sum over partners; shares divide each partner by that total; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.

Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.

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