Italy imported in 1893, marble ($4623), wines ($14,791); in 1894, wine ($3491); in 1895, butter ($2209), hats ($1240), cotton cloth ($1568), and wines ($6933).
Central America imported in 1893, tobacco ($112,418), sugar ($9895), cacao ($2846), maize ($6891), butter ($2893), cigars ($7626).
The exportation during the first six months of 1897 was as follows:
| Total value. | Port of Limon. | Port of Puntarenas. | |||
| Kilos. | Value. | Kilos. | Value. | ||
| Gold. | |||||
| Coffee, in pargement | $538,462 20 | 1,794,874 | $538,462 20 | .. | .. |
| Coffee, in oro | 4,127,698 05 | 10,139,879 | 3,548,957 65 | 1,653,544 | $578,740 40 |
| Bananas | 225,267 50 | 27,400,966 | 225,267 50 | .. | .. |
| Silver. | |||||
| Cedar wood | 525,042 09 | .. | .. | 656,451 | 525,042 09 |
| Mora wood | 67,831 16 | .. | .. | 3,322,435 | 67,831 16 |
| Hides | 41,443 59 | 125,397 | 37,665 80 | 7,945 | 3,777 79 |
| Rubber | 13,961 95 | 7,587 | 11,095 75 | 2,194 | 2,866 20 |
| Gold, in bars | 7,200 00 | 12 | 7,200 00 | .. | .. |
| Gold, coined | 6,117 17 | 6 | 6,117 17 | .. | .. |
| Skins | 5,977 59 | 49 | 60 00 | 6,557 | 5,917 59 |
| Cacao | 2,898 15 | 1,294 | 1,548 40 | 659 | 1,349 75 |
| Guaygacum wood | 2,809 96 | .. | .. | 138,000 | 2,809 96 |
| Potatoes | 1,590 14 | 597 | 112 00 | 11,535 | 1,478 14 |
| Plants, alive | 1,487 00 | 1,846 | 1,487 00 | .. | .. |
| Blue thread | 1,679 00 | .. | .. | 134 | 1,679 00 |
| Hule or rubber | 1,767 00 | 1,350 | 1,767 00 | .. | .. |
| Soap | 700 00 | .. | .. | 1,890 | 700 00 |
| Cocobola wood | 640 67 | .. | .. | 31,465 | 640 67 |
| Dulce (mas cabado) | 606 04 | 175 | 52 00 | 3,565 | 554 04 |
| Zarzaparrilla | 377 15 | 468 | 360 90 | 29 | 16 25 |
| Cedron | 143 75 | .. | .. | 264 | 143 75 |
| Sugar | 223 02 | .. | .. | 732 | 223 02 |
| Pita-hats | 68 00 | .. | .. | 70 | 68 00 |
| Caoba (mahogany) | 374 32 | .. | .. | 111 | 374 32 |
| Pearl shell | 350 00 | .. | .. | 2,241 | 478 00 |
| Turtles, alive | 200 00 | 2,000 | 200 00 | .. | .. |
| Turtle shell (carey) | 150 00 | 16 | 150 00 | .. | .. |
| Total | $5,201,966 58 | 39,491,033 | $4,348,123 | 5,231,835 | $853,843 27 |
In regard to coffee there were exported from October 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897, 231,904 sacks (13,843,088 kilos), of which 84.67 per cent., or 196,343 sacks, in oro, and 15.33 per cent., or 35,561 sacks, in pargement. From this amount 87.93 per cent., or 203,913 sacks (12,184,027 kilos), went through Port Limon and 12.07 per cent., or 27,991 sacks (1,659,061 kilos), through Puntarenas.
From Limon 61.329 per cent. was transported by the Atlas Line, 32.300 per cent. by the British Royal Mail, 2.271 per cent. by the French Steamship line, 3.299 per cent. by the German Line, O.801 per cent. by other lines.
It will be interesting to know the places to which this large amount of coffee is shipped. These particulars are found in the following list:
| Sacks. | Kilogr. | ||
| London | 133,676 | 7,903,450 | |
| San Francisco | 19,946 | 1,183,980 | |
| New York | 33,887 | 2,072,289 | |
| Hamburg | 24,833 | 1,502,311 | |
| Bordeaux | 5,827 | 346,822 | |
| Paris | 206 | 12,524 | |
| Bremen | 12,373 | } | |
| Montreal | 37 | } | |
| Antwerp | 310 | } | |
| Lockport | 1 | } | |
| Chicago | 1 | } | |
| Malaga | 1 | } | 821,712 |
| Geneva | 439 | } | |
| Trieste | 254 | } | |
| Valparaiso | 50 | } | |
| Panama | 62 | } | |
| Barcelona | 1 | } | |
| Total | 231,904 | 13,843,008 |
In connection with the coffee trade there are here given interesting statistics concerning the average annual consumption of coffee per capita of the population of different countries:
| Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | |||
| Holland | 21.00 | United States | 7.61 | Greece | 1.24 |
| Denmark | 13.89 | Sweden | 6.11 | Italy | 1.00 |
| Belgium | 13.48 | Germany | 3.94 | Great Britain | 1.00 |
| Norway | 9.80 | France | 2.73 | European | |
| Switzerland | 7.03 | Austria | 2.13 | Russia | 0.19 |