What is the price of natural rubber per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica natural rubber is between US$ 1.51 and US$ 2.39 per kilogram or between US$ 0.69 and US$ 1.09 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of natural rubber in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for natural rubber is between CRC 822.54 and CRC 1,301.49 per kilogram or between CRC 373.04 and CRC 590.25 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica natural rubber is between US$ 1.06 and US$ 1.68 per kilogram or between US$ 0.48 and US$ 0.76 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica natural rubber - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The amount of natural rubber shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 119 metric tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica exported 537 tonnes of natural rubber. For the year 2019 alone, the interest in Costa Rica natural rubber (processed category) has surged, flactuating by 112.253 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, natural rubber's exports grew by 208.62 pc netting Costa Rica US$0.14m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's natural rubber exports are classified as:
- Balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip (excluding natural rubber, whether or not prevulcanised) (HS code 400130)
- Smoked sheets of natural rubber (HS code 400121)
- Natural rubber in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip (excluding smoked sheets, technically specified natural rubber "TSNR" and natural rubber latex, whether or not prevulcanised) (HS code 400129)
- Natural rubber latex, whether or not prevulcanised (HS code 400110)
- Technically specified natural rubber "TSNR" (HS code 400122)
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Costa Rica natural rubber export values
In 2019, Costa Rica sold natural rubber with a value of 0.14m USD, a drop of -5.41% from 2018's total natural rubber export of 0.148m USD. The yearly reduction in value of Costa Rica natural rubber between 2017 to 2018 was -43.726%.
The annual change in the amount of Costa Rica's natural rubber exports between 2017 and 2019 was 208.62 pc compared to a variation of 112.253% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's stake of the world's total natural rubber's exports in 2019 was less than 1%. The country holds position 12 in world exports of natural rubber.
Export markets for Costa Rica natural rubber ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's leading export markets for natural rubber are Panama, Belize, Nicaragua, Mexico and US.
Import/Export Trends
Costa Rica is a net exporter of natural rubber. The annual growth of Costa Rica natural rubber in value between 2015 to 2019 was 63%, per annum, while annual growth in quantity through the same period was 71%, per annum.
Costa Rica procured 11,046 tonnes of natural rubber in 2019.