AYBARION TRADEImport market · HS 8536 · CR
Costa Rica imports of Electrical apparatus for switching (HS 8536)
Where Costa Rica buys electrical apparatus for switching: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 8536 · Costa Rica trade profile
Top suppliers
| # | Supplier | Value 2024 | Share | Growth | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | USD 88.3 million | 48.6% | −2.8% | BACI:CR:US:8536:1:2024 |
| 2 | China | USD 26.7 million | 14.7% | −15.7% | BACI:CR:CN:8536:1:2024 |
| 3 | Mexico | USD 26.6 million | 14.7% | +39.6% | BACI:CR:MX:8536:1:2024 |
| 4 | Colombia | USD 7.7 million | 4.2% | +55.3% | BACI:CR:CO:8536:1:2024 |
| 5 | Dominican Republic | USD 7.0 million | 3.9% | +2.6% | BACI:CR:DO:8536:1:2024 |
| 6 | Germany | USD 2.4 million | 1.3% | +5.6% | BACI:CR:DE:8536:1:2024 |
| 7 | Canada | USD 2.3 million | 1.3% | +79.5% | BACI:CR:CA:8536:1:2024 |
| 8 | Panama | USD 2.1 million | 1.2% | +35.4% | BACI:CR:PA:8536:1:2024 |
| 9 | Taiwan | USD 2.1 million | 1.1% | −22.2% | BACI:CR:TW:8536:1:2024 |
| 10 | Japan | USD 2.0 million | 1.1% | −9.5% | BACI:CR:JP:8536:1:2024 |
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 electronic and telecommunications equipment and parts (NACE 4652) and Wholesale of other machinery and equipment (NACE 4669). 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 2026-10-22. 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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Members see the importers, distributors and wholesalers of electrical apparatus for switching in Costa Rica, with their evidence and Data Passport.