What is the price of sugar per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica sugar is between US$ 0.72 and US$ 0.82 per kilogram or between US$ 0.33 and US$ 0.37 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of sugar in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for sugar is between CRC 393.18 and CRC 444.91 per kilogram or between CRC 178.31 and CRC 201.77 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica sugar is between US$ 0.51 and US$ 0.57 per kilogram or between US$ 0.23 and US$ 0.26 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica sugar - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of sugar shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 193,134 metric tons. In 2019 Costa Rica sold 204,609 tonnes of sugar. Through 2019 alone, the demand for Costa Rica sugar (processed category) has shrunk, changing by -0.39964952 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, sugar's exports decreased by -10.67% bringing the nation US$75.13m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's sugar exports are categorised as:
- Raw beet sugar (excluding added flavouring or colouring) (HS code 170112)
- Raw cane sugar, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter (excluding cane sugar of 1701 13) (HS code 170114)
- Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form (excluding cane and beet sugar containing added flavouring or colouring and raw sugar) (HS code 170199)
- Refined cane or beet sugar, containing added flavouring or colouring, in solid form (HS code 170191)
- Raw cane sugar (excluding added flavouring or colouring) (HS code 170111)
- Raw cane sugar, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter, obtained without centrifugation, with sucrose content 69° to 93°, containing only natural anhedral microcrystals (see subheading note 2.) (HS code 170113)
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Costa Rica sugar export values
In 2019, Costa Rica supplied sugar valued at 75.13m USD, a decrease of -12.63% from 2018's total sugar export of 85.986m USD. The annual change in value of Costa Rica sugar between 2017 to 2018 was -22.111 pc.
The per year variation in the quantity of Costa Rica's sugar exports between 2017 and 2019 was -10.67 percent compared to a variation of -0.39964952% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Costa Rica sugar ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's leading destinations for sugar are US, Greece, Belgium, Lithuania and the Bahamas.
Costa Rica brought in 12,485 tonnes of sugar in 2019.