71057 v2 Costa Rica: Trade At-A-Glance Dec-08 2007 GDP 2007 GDP 2007 Share 2007 Trade Membership No. of RTAs/ EIAs (millions) per capita in World Trade per capita GATT WTO Goods Services $26,004 $5,830 0.08% $6,041 1990 1995 4 2 Costa Rica TRADE PERFORMANCE ‡ LAC Ranking Decile TP Upper mid inc TRADE POLICY (TP) (out of 125) 16 2 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE) (out of 126) 81 7 TO EE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) (out of 181) 117 7 TRADE FACILITATION (TF) (out of 151) 72 5 TRADE OUTCOME (TO) (out of 161) 60 4 TF IE ‡ Rankings are based on the "representative" indicators (in bold) in each group below for the latest year Outer bound represents best value in latest year TRADE POLICY (TP)  1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Trade Tariff Restrictiveness Index (MFN applied tariffs)& 5.4 4.4 3.5 * TTRI (applied tariffs including preferences) & .. 4.3 3.3 * TTRI Overall TRI (OTRI, applied tariffs incl. prefs.+NTMs)& .. 4.4 3.4 * (MFN) Other trade policy indicators MFN applied tariff - simple avg (%) 8.3 5.7 5.7 5.5 * Applied Dispersion (coefficient of variation) 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.4 * tariff (wgt avg) Maximum rate 176.5 154.0 108.8 112.5 * Agriculture - simple avg (%) 14.0 12.2 12.2 12.2 * Import Nonagriculture - simple avg (%) 7.5 4.7 4.7 4.5 * duties MFN applied tariff - trade weighted avg (%) 7.0 4.5 4.6 4.4 * MFN zero-duty imports (% in total imports) 23.5 54.3 69.3 .. Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - trade weighted avg (%) 6.3 4.1 3.6 3.4 * Nontariff measures Agriculture 9.9 9.2 6.3 5.9 * Nonagriculture 5.9 3.7 3.3 3.1 * 0 10 20 Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - production weighted avg (%) .. .. .. LAC Upper mid inc Costa Rica Applied tariff (incl. prefs.) escalation (finished% minus raw%) 0.5 1.4 1.3 * Agriculture .. 9.7 8.1 8.2 * Nonagriculture .. 1.4 2.6 2.3 * Import duties (% of imports) .. .. 1.7 1.7 * Services commit. Tariff overhang (MFN bound less MFN applied rate,%) 34.6 37.1 37.1 37.3 * Bound tariff frequency ratio (% of total lines) 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 * Specific tariffs frequency ratio (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 * 0 40 80 Non-tariff measures frequency ratio (%) 1.6 .. .. .. LAC Upper mid inc Costa Rica Overall GATS commitment index (0-100, best) .. 2.8 2.8 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (EE)  1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ MA-TTRI (applied tariffs incl. prefs.)& 2.9 1.8 * MA-OTRI (applied tariffs incl. prefs.+NTMs)& 16.4 14.9 * MA-TTRI Other external environment indicators ROW applied tariff (incl. prefs.) - weighted avg (%) 10.9 4.7 2.5 0.7 * MFN duty free Agriculture 16.5 9.7 6.3 0.7 * (exports) Nonagriculture 5.9 2.4 1.2 0.8 * MFN zero-duty exports (% of total exports) 18.8 48.8 62.0 59.2 * Value of prefer Exports with FTA / CU partners (% of total exports) 11.4 18.4 36.0 54.7 * Preferences (EU+U.S.) utilization rate (%) .. .. 93.7 88.3 * 0 1 Lowest Highest Preferences (EU+U.S.) actual value (% of exports) .. .. 2.0 1.9 * LAC Upper mid inc Costa Rica Real effective exchange rate (% change,+ =apprec.) 0.5 -1.2 1.2 4.5 ^ Indicators shown are period averages, incl. growth rates. Latest indicates 2008; when not available, 2006 or 2007 is used(noted by *). For more infor., see User's Guide at http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008. ŸMFN: most favored nation; NTM: nontariff measures; MA: market access; ROW: rest of the world; FTA: free trade agreement; CU: customs union; WTO: World Trade Organization GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; WGI: World Government Indicators; ".." indicates missing value; RTA/EIA: regional trade arrangement / economic integration arrangement; & 2007 are preliminary estimates Costa Rica Trade At-A-Glance Dec-08 INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT (IE) 2004 2006 2007 2008 Ease of Doing Business (rank out of 181) .. .. 118 117 Starting a business (rank) .. .. 116 123 Enforcing contracts (rank) .. .. 131 123 Ease of Doing Closing a business (rank) .. 107 132 Business Other institutional environment indicators WGI - Regulatory Quality (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.43 0.23 0.39 .. 0 80 160 WGI - Rule of Law (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.61 0.51 0.44 .. LAC Upper mid inc Costa Rica WGI - Control of Corruption (-2.5 to +2.5, best) 0.48 0.39 0.39 .. TRADE FACILITATION (TF) 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Logistics Performance Index (LPI, 1 to 5 best) .. .. 2.6 2.6 * Efficiency of customs and other border procedures .. .. 2.5 2.5 * Logistic Index Quality of transport and IT infrastructures .. .. 2.4 2.4 * International transportation costs .. .. 2.5 2.5 * Logistics competence .. .. 2.4 2.4 * Trading Trackability of shipments .. .. 2.6 2.6 * Across Borders Domestic transportation costs .. .. 3.1 3.1 * Timeliness of shipment .. .. 2.9 2.9 * Other trade facilitation indicators UNCTAD Shipping Doing Business - Trading Across Borders (rank out of 181) .. 82 94 No. of documents required for exports .. .. 7 7 No. of days process required for exports .. .. 16 15 Telephones Cost to export (US$ per container) .. .. 760 1,050 per 100 No. of documents required for imports .. .. 11 8 No. of days process required for imports .. .. 36 25 Secondary Cost to import (US$ per container) .. .. 760 1,050 enrollment Liner shipping connectivity index (0-100 best) .. .. 12.9 15.3 Telephones and mobiles per 100 people 19.6 39.4 62.2 66.0 * 0 Lowest 1 Highest Average cost of 3-minute call to U.S. (US$) 3.7 1.9 .. .. LAC Upper mid inc Costa Rica Internet usage (per 100 people) 1.9 15.3 27.5 33.6 * Secondary gross school enrollment (%) 57.0 67.9 82.5 85.8 * * TRADE OUTCOME (TO) ## 1995-99^ 2000-04^ 2005-07^ Latest^ Real growth in trade of goods and services (%) 11.8 2.9 11.9 8.0 14 12 Exports 14.9 2.8 11.9 8.0 11.8 11.9 10 9.1 8.8 Imports 9.2 3.1 10.4 8.1 8 7.9 8.0 6.4 Other trade outcome indicators 6 5.9 5.0 4 3.7 Trade integration (trade as % of GDP) 88.9 91.5 104.9 116.7 2 2.9 FDI inflow (% of GDP) 3.6 3.4 4.8 3.5 0 1995-99 2000-04 2005-07 2008 World trade share growth (%) 11.0 -6.0 0.9 1.5 Trade Growth Rate Exports 13.6 -7.8 0.0 1.2 Costa Rica LAC Upper mid inc Imports 8.6 -3.9 1.7 1.7 Merchandise share in total exports (%) 79.1 74.0 72.8 72.6 Exports Share (2005-07) Agriculture 43.1 25.6 24.0 24.0 * Manufacturing 34.0 47.3 47.6 47.4 * Agric, Service, Mining, fuel and others 2.0 1.1 1.4 1.6 * 27.2 24.0 Service share in total exports (%) 20.9 26.0 27.2 27.3 Tourism 14.1 16.6 16.1 15.4 * Mining, Transportation 3.1 3.3 2.7 2.5 * 1.4 Other services 3.7 6.1 8.4 9.6 * Export product concentration index (0 to 100, highest) 27.4 23.4 20.2 22.6 * Manuf, Export market concentration index (0 to 100, highest) 45.7 50.2 44.9 44.9 * 47.6 Top 5 exports share (% of merchandise exports) .. .. .. .. Top 5 exports (SITC Rev. 2; 3 digit) 0.0 ^ Indicators shown are period averages, incl. growth rates. Latest indicates 2008; when not available, 2006 or 2007 is used (noted by *). For more info., see User's Guide at http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008 ## Most outcome indicators (mostly through 2007) are from the WDI (World Bank, Data Group), UNCTAD or COMTRADE; for filling gaps and 2008, data from the Prospects Group are used.