Costa Rica - Taxes on international trade

Taxes on international trade (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on international trade (current LCU) in Costa Rica was 479,669,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 479,669,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 230,000,000 in 1972.

Definition: Taxes on international trade include import duties, export duties, profits of export or import monopolies, exchange profits, and exchange taxes.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 230,000,000
1973 290,000,000
1974 600,000,000
1975 670,000,000
1976 740,000,000
1977 990,000,000
1978 1,120,000,000
1979 1,270,000,000
1980 1,390,000,000
1981 2,790,000,000
1982 5,000,000,000
1983 6,290,000,000
1984 7,650,000,000
1985 8,660,000,000
1986 11,490,000,000
1987 16,130,000,000
1988 30,010,000,000
1989 33,740,000,000
1990 27,710,000,000
1991 31,940,000,000
1992 37,280,000,000
1993 41,570,000,000
1994 47,080,000,000
1995 63,650,000,000
1996 42,200,000,000
1997 55,910,000,000
1998 62,850,000,000
1999 51,660,000,000
2000 49,900,000,000
2001 55,200,000,000
2002 60,200,000,000
2003 71,700,000,000
2004 92,338,000,000
2005 111,127,000,000
2006 136,227,000,000
2007 170,532,000,000
2008 201,565,000,000
2009 166,500,000,000
2010 186,977,000,000
2011 250,253,000,000
2012 271,080,000,000
2013 304,776,000,000
2014 337,386,000,000
2015 377,824,000,000
2016 445,239,000,000
2017 460,148,000,000
2018 472,304,000,000
2019 479,669,000,000

Taxes on international trade (% of revenue)

Taxes on international trade (% of revenue) in Costa Rica was 4.95 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 34.21 in 1988, while its lowest value was 4.02 in 2009.

Definition: Taxes on international trade include import duties, export duties, profits of export or import monopolies, exchange profits, and exchange taxes.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 18.25
1973 17.90
1974 24.49
1975 22.11
1976 20.27
1977 22.55
1978 19.48
1979 20.09
1980 18.83
1981 27.38
1982 29.36
1983 22.38
1984 21.03
1985 21.12
1986 21.06
1987 23.02
1988 34.21
1989 32.42
1990 22.96
1991 19.65
1992 16.55
1993 14.96
1994 14.43
1995 14.89
1996 8.38
1997 9.11
1998 8.50
1999 5.72
2000 4.84
2001 4.59
2002 4.39
2003 4.54
2004 5.07
2005 5.08
2006 4.95
2007 5.08
2008 5.08
2009 4.02
2010 4.12
2011 4.96
2012 4.87
2013 5.07
2014 5.21
2015 5.16
2016 5.56
2017 5.74
2018 5.13
2019 4.95

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance