1. Presented by- Vikram jeet singh
M.Thrinath umakar
Raghvendra kumar
Arindam Datta
Deepak singh

2.  INTRODUCTION OF COSTA RICA
 JOURNEY OF TRADE
 PROBLEMS
 STATERGY
 PROGRESS REPORT
 PRESENT SENERIO OF COSTA RICA
 REFRENCES

3.  Costa rica is republic country of central
america
 Capital- san jose
 Population- 4 million people
 Birth rate- 72.12 year
 Literacy rate- 96%
 Curreny- costa rican colon

4. LIBERAL TRADE(1800-1960)
 A policy calling
For minimal govt. interference in trade &
investment.

5. IMPORT SUBSITUTION(1960-1983)
 A Policy calling for the local production of
goods & services that would otherwise have
to be imported.

6. LIBERALIZITON OF IMPORTS EXPORTS
(1983-1990)
 Removed import barrier by changing the
policy of trade

7. STATEGIC TRADE POLICY(EARLY 1990- PRESENT)
 Identifying the targeting industry for
international competition

8.  TRADE DISCONNECTION- Occasioned by two
world war
 Drop of coffee & banana prices
 Agricultural production was dropped from
40.9% -25.2% of G.D.P
 Costa rica could not remain cost competitive
in the types of products exported from the
E.P.Z (economic processing zone)
 The costa rica is highly skilled workforce was
not being utilized to best advantage

9.  THEORY OF MOBILITY- The ability to move
factor of production like labor, capital &
land:- out of one production process & into
another
 CINDE RECOMMENDATION-
I. Establish export processing zone(e.p.z)
II. They reduce export/import TAX
III. Hired Foreign investment advisory
service(F.I.A.S) E.g- setup Spanish language
training

10.  Setting out to attract investment in
electronic & software e.g- colorplast and
sensortronics
 Cinde official make costa rica attractive to
computer chip gaint i.e INTEL
 Costa had turned its attention to medical
equipments e.g- baxter, abbott laboratories
& gamble.

11.  Costa rica is Ranked 68th in Human development
index(H.D.I)
 Costa Rica is ranked 53th with an Economic
Complexity Index (E.C.I)
 An INTEL microprocessor facility in Costa Rica is
responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports.

12. Top 5 Products exported
by Costa Rica
Integrated Circuits (44%)
Office Machine Parts (11%)
Medical Instruments (5.8%)
Bananas (5.4%)
Tropical Fruits (4.8%)
Top 5 Products imported
by Costa Rica
Refined Petroleum (12%)
Integrated Circuits (9.5%)
Printed Circuit Boards (3.8%)
Cars (3.3%)
Packaged Medicaments (2.1%)

13. Top 5 Export destinations
of Costa Rica
United States (39%)
Netherlands (11%)
Mexico (8.9%)
China (5.0%)
Malaysia (2.5%)
Top 5 Import origins
ofCosta Rica
United States (51%)
China (7.8%)
Mexico (6.4%)
Japan (3.3%)
Panama (2.9%)

14.  What products should be import & export.
 How much should we trade.
 With whom we should trade.

15.  Alexander Simoes,(2015) “top 5 importing,
exporting countries” The Observatory of
Economic Complexity
 Wikipedia, (2013) “ranking in HDI”
 L.Arias, (2015) “top selling products” The
tico times news.