Tag: PROCOMER

In 2019, exports of goods are estimated to total nearly US$11.5 billion, barely 2% higher than reported in the previous year, and far from the 6% increase recorded in 2018, according to estimates by the Ministerio de Comercio Exterior (Comex) - Ministry of Foreign...

The Textilera Amoena decided to close its operations in Costa Rica, which will leave around 300 people out of work. According to a statement made by the company, the decision is based on substantial changes in market patterns, especially in the supply of textiles. The company,...

The decline in exports of the agricultural sector reported in the first quarter, coupled with the lack of rainfall, has caused that the beginning of the year has not been the best for businessmen in Costa Rica. Figures from the Promotora del Comercio Exterio de...

Although exports have tripled in the last three years, mainly because of increased sales of medical equipment, sugar, ethyl alcohol, and meat, the business sector's expectations are not as optimistic. Data from the Foreign Trade Promoter (Procomer), the institution in charge of promoting the exportation...

Due to the effect of climatic phenomena at the beginning of the year, in the first five months of 2018, banana sales abroad amounted to US$410 million, 9% less than was reported in the same period in 2017. According to data from the Foreign Trade...

In recent months, the hype surrounding cryptocurrency and Bitcoin has exploded on a global scale, with mainstream media trickling information into the mass market and creating a culture of FOMO (fear of missing out). This FOMO is pushing companies to jump on the hype train...

A group of Costa Rican craft beer (cerveza artesanal) producers has been working on creating a cluster, in conjunction with the Foreign Trade Promoter, the Promotora de Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica (Procomer), to export their proudcts to new markets. Initially aimed at the United...

It is estimated that this year the exports of medical devices - mainly industrial export from Costa Rica - will reach US$3 billion dollars, an increase of 22% over last year. This growth prompted ten companies medical device manufacturing and exporting companies to join forces...

Eighty Costa Rican companies have already integrated into Amazon's online sales, through a program coordinated by the Foreign Trade Promoter (Procomer) to sell their products in the United States. Of those companies, at least 40 have already made sales, said Laura Quesada, Procomer's export promoter...

QCR BUSINESS - The value of exports from the agricultural sector remains slightly as the main generator of foreign exchange in the country, despite strong growth in the last four years in the value of sales of precision and medical equipment. In the first half...

Q COSTA RICA - The first shipment of Costa Rica's pineapples left the Pacific port of Caldera, in Puntarenas, for Shanghai, as part of Costa Rica's initial efforts to explore the Chinese tropical fruit market. "This first shipment of pineapples to China marks a milestone...

Costa Rica has embarked on an export diversification strategy to take advantage of the surge in international demand for exotic fruits and vegetables. During a visit by president Luis Guillermo Solís to London this week, Pedro Beirute, CEO of trade promotion agency Procomer (Promotora de...

(QCOSTARICA) Sales of technology services is outperforming tourism, due to the increasing demand for Costa Rican products. According to the annual report by the Costa Rican Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (Cámara de Tecnología de Información y Comunicación - CAMTIC), annual exports, excluding components,...

(QCOSTARICA) -- The gross volume of banana exports fell 13%, while pineapple exports are down 15% in the first trimester of the year compared to the same period in 2014. The decline reflected in the data provided by the Promotora del Comercio Exterior (Procomer) -...

  (QCOSTARICA) The Costa Rican investment promotion agency, CINDE, that woos multinational companies to settle in this country has earned an award from Site Selection Magazine as best in the region for attracting business to Costa Rica. The hard-working agency has for decades wooed dozens of...

QCOSTARIA - Some 63 foreign companies in Costa Rica operate facilities for manufacturing medical supplies and devices in areas such as neuromodulation, dentistry, cardiovascular, orthopedics and endoscopy. At the end of 2014 exports of medical devices totaled US$1.9 billion, ie 19% more than reported in...