What is the price of cheese per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica cheese is between US$ 3.45 and US$ 5.21 per kilogram or between US$ 1.56 and US$ 2.36 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of cheese in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for cheese is between CRC 1,875.03 and CRC 2,830.92 per kilogram or between CRC 850.35 and CRC 1,283.86 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica cheese is between US$ 2.42 and US$ 3.65 per kilogram or between US$ 1.10 and US$ 1.65 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica cheese - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of cheese exported by Costa Rica in 2020 was 2,968 metric tons. In 2019 Costa Rica shipped 3,595 tonnes of cheese. For 2019 alone, the demand for Costa Rica cheese (processed category) has shrunk, recording a change of -10.371 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, cheese's exports decreased by -8.5% netting the exporter US$13.94m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's cheese exports are categorised as:
- Grated or powdered cheese, of all kinds (HS code 040620)
- Processed cheese, not grated or powdered (HS code 040630)
- Cheese (excluding fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "Penicillium roqueforti", and grated or powdered cheese) (HS code 040690)
- Fresh cheese "unripened or uncured cheese", incl. whey cheese, and curd (HS code 040610)
- Blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "Penicillium roqueforti" (HS code 040640)
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Costa Rica cheese export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported cheese worth 13.94m USD, a contraction of -18.49% from 2018's total cheese export of 17.102m USD. The annual change in value of Costa Rica cheese between 2017 to 2018 was -0.81197077%.
The yearly variation in the quantity of Costa Rica's cheese exports between 2017 and 2019 was -8.5 pc in comparison to a variation of -10.371% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's stake of the world's total cheese's exports in 2019 was 3.4 pc. Costa Rica holds number 11 in world exports of cheese.
Export markets for Costa Rica cheese ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's best performing destinations for cheese are Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.
Import/Export Trends
Costa Rica is a net exporter of cheese. The annual growth of Costa Rica cheese in value between 2015 to 2019 was 8%, per annum, while annual growth in quantity was 9%, per annum.
Costa Rica brought in 4,580 tonnes of cheese in 2019.