Exports: $3.9 billion (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports—commodities: manufactured products, coffee, bananas,
textiles, sugar (1997)
Exports—partners: US, Benelux, Germany, Italy, Guatemala, El
Salvador, Netherlands, UK, France (1997)
Imports: $4.5 billion (c.i.f., 1998)
Imports—commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital
equipment, petroleum (1997)
Imports—partners: US, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala,
Germany (1997)
Debt—external: $3.2 billion (October 1996 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $107.1 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Costa Rican colon (C) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: Costa Rican colones (C) per US$1—272.58 (January 1999), 257.23 (1998), 232.60 (1997), 207.69 (1996), 179.73 (1995), 157.07 (1994)