What is the price of natural lac per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica natural lac is between US$ 3.44 and US$ 4.13 per kilogram or between US$ 1.56 and US$ 1.87 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of natural lac in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for natural lac is between CRC 1,869.65 and CRC 2,243.58 per kilogram or between CRC 847.91 and CRC 1,017.49 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica natural lac is between US$ 2.41 and US$ 2.89 per kilogram or between US$ 1.09 and US$ 1.31 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica natural lac - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of natural lac shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 10 metric tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica shipped 17 tonnes of natural lac. Across 2019 alone, the interest in Costa Rica natural lac (agro commodities category) has shrunk, recording a change of -52.778 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, natural lac's exports went down by -37.04 percent netting the exporter US$0.04m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's natural lac exports are classified as:
- Natural lac (HS code 130110)
- Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins, balsams and other natural oleoresins (excluding gum Arabic) (HS code 130190)
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Costa Rica natural lac export values
In 2019, Costa Rica sold natural lac worth 0.04m USD, a contraction of -75.46% from 2018's total natural lac export of 0.163m USD. The yearly reduction in value of Costa Rica natural lac between 2017 to 2018 was 49.541 per cent.
The annual change in the quantity of Costa Rica's natural lac exports between 2017 and 2019 was -37.04 per cent compared to a variation of -52.778% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Costa Rica natural lac ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica brought in 57 tonnes of natural lac in 2019.