Exports Up 14 Percent
In 2007, Costa Rican
exports increased by 14
percent as compared to
those in 2006, going
from us$82 billion to
us$9.3 billion.
That rate of growth was
lower than the 17
percent recorded in the
preceding year, but it
surpassed the 11.5
percent in 2005 and the
3 percent in 2004.
Of the overall sales
abroad, 38 percent went
to the United States;
however, that figure has
been decreasing since
2002, when that market
absorbed 53 percent of
all Tico exports.
Minister of Foreign
Commerce Marco Ruiz
pointed to this fact as
one of the reasons that
would somehow soothe the
consequences here of
recession in the U.S. |
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