What is the price of pepper per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica pepper is between US$ 2.45 and US$ 4.41 per kilogram or between US$ 1.11 and US$ 2.00 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of pepper in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for pepper is between CRC 1,332.20 and CRC 2,397.96 per kilogram or between CRC 604.17 and CRC 1,087.51 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica pepper is between US$ 1.72 and US$ 3.09 per kilogram or between US$ 0.78 and US$ 1.40 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica pepper - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of pepper sold by Costa Rica in 2020 was 1,328 tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica shipped 904 tonnes of pepper. In 2019 alone, the interest in Costa Rica pepper (herbs and spices category) has shrunk, recording a change of -42.929 per cent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, pepper's exports reduced by -68.17% netting the country US$5.54m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's pepper exports are classified as:
- Pepper (Capsicum or Pimenta), dried, crushed or ground (HS code 0904XX)
- Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground (HS code 090412)
- Pepper of the genus Piper, neither crushed nor ground (HS code 090411)
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Costa Rica pepper export values
In 2019, Costa Rica supplied pepper valued at 5.54m USD, a contraction of -38.83% from 2018's total pepper export of 9.056m USD. The annual reduction in value of Costa Rica pepper between 2017 to 2018 was -53.909 percent.
The annual variation in the volume of Costa Rica's pepper exports between 2017 and 2019 was -68.17 percent compared to a variation of -42.929% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's stake of the world's total pepper's exports in 2019 was less than 1%. The country is ranked position 50 in world exports of pepper.
Export markets for Costa Rica pepper ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's best performing export markets for pepper are Saudi Arabia, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama and Nicaragua.
Costa Rica bought 2,480 tonnes of pepper in 2019.
Production
The production of pepper in Costa Rica was 27,180 tonnes in 2019 and is projected to change by an average of -5.7%. The country had an estimated 6,228.00 hectares under pepper cultivation.