Weekly Report - 26 January 2012 (WR-12-04)

COSTA RICA | Exports surge. Exports increased by 12.5% to US$15.38bn in 2011 compared with the previous year. The foreign trade minister, Anabel González, said this broke the historic record for exports and exceeded the government’s target by US$779m. The industrial sector, which includes the Intel microprocessor facility, represented 74.5% of the total. The agriculture sector amounted to 23.1% of the total; and fishing, 2.4%. The main export market was the US (38.6%) followed by the Netherlands (7.1%) and China (6.9%).