What is the price of pork per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica pork is between US$ 4.62 and US$ 7.05 per kilogram or between US$ 2.09 and US$ 3.20 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of pork in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for pork is between CRC 2,508.98 and CRC 3,829.50 per kilogram or between CRC 1,137.86 and CRC 1,736.73 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica pork is between US$ 3.23 and US$ 4.93 per kilogram or between US$ 1.47 and US$ 2.24 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica pork - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of pork shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 2,523 metric tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica sold 803 tonnes of pork. Across 2019 alone, the demand for Costa Rica pork (meat category) has surged, flactuating by 60.6 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, pork's exports increased by 7.64 percent bringing the nation US$2.43m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's pork exports are categorised as:
- Frozen edible livers of swine (HS code 020641)
- Prepared or preserved shoulders and cuts thereof, of swine (HS code 160242)
- Meat of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (excluding hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, and bellies and cuts thereof) (HS code 021019)
- Fresh or chilled carcases and half-carcases of swine (HS code 020311)
- Fresh or chilled hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, with bone in (HS code 020312)
- Frozen hams, shoulders and cuts thereof of swine, with bone in (HS code 020322)
- Fresh or chilled edible offal of swine (HS code 020630)
- Prepared or preserved meat and offal of swine, incl. mixtures (excluding hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purpose, in containers of a net weight of <= 250 g, preparations of liver and meat extracts and juices) (HS code 160249)
- Edible offal of swine, frozen (excluding livers) (HS code 020649)
- Frozen meat of swine (excluding carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in) (HS code 020329)
- Frozen carcases and half-carcases of swine (HS code 020321)
- Fresh or chilled meat of swine (excluding carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in) (HS code 020319)
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Costa Rica pork export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported pork with a value of 2.43m USD, a growth of 45.60% from 2018's total pork export of 1.669m USD. The yearly growth in value of Costa Rica pork between 2017 to 2018 was -31.345%.
The yearly change in the amount of Costa Rica's pork exports between 2017 and 2019 was 7.64 pc in comparison to a variation of 60.6% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's stake of the world's total pork's exports in 2019 was less than 1%. The country is ranked number 29 in world exports of pork.
Export markets for Costa Rica pork ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's top export markets for pork are Vietnam, Honduras, Guatemala, US and Panama.
Import/Export Trends
Costa Rica is a net importer of pork. The annual growth of Costa Rica pork in value between 2015 to 2019 was 9%, per year, while annual growth in quantity through the same period was 8%, per annum.
Costa Rica procured 14,436 tonnes of pork in 2019.