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WebGuide - Costa Rica

The following WebGuide, compiled by  the Ypsilanti U. S. Export Assistance Center, is meant to provide an overview into the many sources of information which must be considered in making a business decision.  Your feedback is appreciated to keep this as comprehensive a document as possible.  For a copy of the Country Commercial Guide, prepared annually by the US Commercial Service, Costa Rica, please click here. 

Airlines

For Airlines flying into Costa Rica, this has the official info: http://www.dgac.go.cr/pdf/certificados.pdf 

A Guide to Airlines Serving Costa Rica

http://www.villa-plenitud.com/airlines.html 

Airlines in Costa Rica

http://www.costarica.tourism.co.cr/airlines.html 

Costa Rica airlines - Travelair

http://www.travelair-costarica.com/ 

Grupo Taca

http://www.grupotaca.com/ 

Lacsa - The Airline of Costa Rica

http://www.centralamerica.com/

Nature Air - Costa Rica's Domestic Airline

http://www.centralamerica.com/

Sansa

http://www.flysansa.com/ 

The Traveler's Guide to Airlines Serving Costa Rica

http://www.costarica-surgeons.com/

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Banks

In addition to the following links, the following guide may be of help: Questions for Your Banker.  It has links to several directories of worldwide banks.

Banco Central de Costa Rica

http://www.bccr.fi.cr/ 

Banco de San José

https://www.bac.net/

Banks in Costa Rica

http://www.internationalist.com/

Banks of Costa Rica - AAAdir World Bank Directory

http://www.aaadir.com/

Inter-American Development Bank Home

http://www.iadb.org/ 

Reserve-Bank.com - Banks Worldwide - Banks in Costa Rica

http://www.reserve-bank.com/

World Bank Group | Costa Rica

http://www.worldbank.org/cr 

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Business with Costa Rica

Business!

http://www.costarica.com/
CINDE, the Costa Rican Investment Board, a private non-profit nonpolitical organization, founded in 1982 http://www.cinde.or.cr 

COCORI-Starting a Business in Costa Rica

http://www.cocori.com/

Costa Rica Business Customs and Protocol

http://www.worldbiz.com/

Costa Rica Business Incentives

http://www.amerisol.com/

Costa Rica business practices, protocol and Costa Rican customs, negotiating, business etiquette

http://www.worldbiz.com/

Costa Rica Business Resources

http://costaricahomepages.com/

Costa Rica Home Pages presents: business in Costa Rica

http://www.westnet.com/costarica/

Doing business in Costa Rica

http://www.businessculture.com/

Doing Business in Costa Rica

http://www.internationalist.com/

Investing and Doing Business in Costa Rica

http://www.businesscostarica.com/ 

Investing and Doing Business in Costa Rica

http://www.crica.com/biz/ 
Attorneys know to the US Commercial Service, San Jose. http://www.buyusa.gov/

MSI Network - Doing Business In... Costa Rica

http://www.msi-network.com/

U.S. Commercial Service Costa Rica: Doing Business in Costa Rica?

http://www.buyusa.gov/

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Chambers of Commerce

Chamber.com - The Worlds Trusted Business Partner.

http://www.chamber.com/ 

Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce

http://www.amcham.co.cr/ 

Tamarindo Chamber of Commerce, Tamarindo, Costa Rica

http://www.tamarindobeach.org/

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Costa Rica's Economic Outlook

Costa Rica: Economic Trends and Outlook

http://www.nvmundo.com/

COSTA RICA: ECONOMIC UPDATE. 

http://www.metabase.net/docs/

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: The Central American Market

http://tendencias.infoamericas.com/

IDB - Country Papers and Economic Assessments

http://www.iadb.org/

IMF Country Page

http://www.imf.org/

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

http://www.undp.org/ 

Watson Wyatt Latin America - News, Compensation Outlook, ...

http://www.watsonwyatt.com/

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Costa Rica's Government

Casa presidencial Costa Rica

http://www.casapres.go.cr/ 

CINDE - Costa Rican Investment Board

http://www.cinde.or.cr/ 

Costa Rica

http://globaledge.msu.edu/

Costa Rica Web

http://www.costaricaweb.com/ 

Costa Rica, Government

http://www.photo.net/cr/moon/government 

Embassy of Costa Rica

http://www.costarica-embassy.org/ 

Government - Costa Rica Information Center

http://www.costaricaweb.com/govenm/ 

Governments on the WWW: Costa Rica

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/cr.html 

LookSmart - Costa Rica Government

http://www.looksmart.com/
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, and Commerce - This Spanish-language site provides general information on the economy and industry, including statistics. The ministry also enforces the Consumer Protection Law, and the site contains the full text of the law. http:// www.meic.go.cr 

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Directories and Databases

Costa Rica Click

http://www.costaricaclick.com/

Costa Rica Internet Directory

http://www.costaricainternetdirectory.com/

Costa Rica Yellow Pages

http://www.bruncas.com/
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Financing Agencies

Costa Rica: Investment Climate

http://www.nvmundo.com/

Country Programmes: Costa Rica

http://www.undp.org/

IMF--Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board--Costa Rica

http://www.imf.org/external/country/CRI/index.htm  

International Business Practices: Costa Rica

http://www.ad-mkt-review.com/

U.S. TDA; Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

http://www.tda.gov/region/latin.html 

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General Country Information

Costa Rican Links in General http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/cr.html 
Costa Rican Stock Exchange - This Spanish-English Web site provides general information on the Costa Rican Stock Exchange. It includes a list of companies that are traded on the exchange. http:// www.bnv.co.cr 
Costa Rica WebGuide http://www.latinworld.com/ 
Fodors is known for being the best site for travel offering hotel, restaurant reviews and their series of mini-guides to specific destinations. http://www.fodors.com
Costa Rica WebGuide http://www.cocori.com/ 
Costa Rican web portal http://costa-rica.start4all.com/ 
About's guide to Costa Rica http://geography.about.com/

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Market Research

US Department of Commerce market research http://www.buyusainfo.net/

CID Gallup Latin America

http://www.cidgallup.com/ 

Costa Rica: Appendix: Market Research

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/da90448e.html 

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Michigan Exports

Item 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total 10858892 13707167 20592488 22951546
325 Chemical Manufactures 4989208 5328328 8112171 10112603
337 Furniture & Related Products 1457334 907649 1016831 2549365
333 Machinery Manufactures 660466 863241 2311758 2009493
336 Transportation Equipment 1200529 2123490 3393772 1924114
334 Computers & Electronic Prod. 356977 858627 1256061 1829204
331 Primary Metal Manufactures 25105 151008 39250 1220705
311 Processed Foods 597170 1067646 1675519 1143981
326 Plastic & Rubber Products 92290 347947 754608 658317
111 Crop Production 348588 293906 618095 533065
332 Fabricated Metal Products 435084 852773 463081 295648
339 Misc. Manufactures 277240 527827 205618 257922
335 Elec. Eq.; Appliances & Parts 183669 149892 369136 217852
313 Fabric Mill Products 72119 6110 13198 63476
316 Leather & Related Products 21799 20610 227472 36309
322 Paper Products 34825 11949 20529 34013
327 Non-Metallic Mineral Mfgs. 9109 44348 32408 33057
323 Printing & Related Products 30465 38434 30827 23844
910 Waste & Scrap 0 0 0 8578
511 Publishing Industries 0 0 0 0
321 Wood Products 0 0 0 0
315 Apparel Manufactures 4743 7126 0 0
314 Non-Apparel Textile Products 2926 27563 19379 0
990 Spec. Classification Provisions 0 25904 0 0
920 Used Merchandise 59246 32999 17771 0
324 Petroleum & Coal Products 0 19790 15004 0

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Miscellaneous

Colleges and Universities

Colleges, overseas academic - Costa RIca

http://quebec.to/
Colleges and Universities

Ministerio de Educación Pública - Costa Rica

http://www.daad.de/
Colleges and Universities Colleges and Universities - Costa Rica  http://www.mit.edu:8001/
Search Engines

Costa Rica, search engines, chambers of commerce

http://www.la-toile.com/
Search Engines

Gain quick, efficient access to search engines of Costa Rica! ...

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Search Engines

Costa Rica. Costa Rica. Home. Mail. Chat. Site Meter. MP3 search. Terra, ... Internettico, ... Infocostarica, ... Yellowweb. 

http://www.yakeo.com/
US Subsidiaries 3COM http://lat.3com.com/lat/ 
US Subsidiaries Cisco http://www.cisco.com/cr/ 
US Subsidiaries Microsoft Costa Rica, Edificio Torre del Este, Piso 4, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San Jose, Costa Rica, Phone: (506) 2805100, Fax. (506) 2805070 http://www.microsoft.com/
US Subsidiaries Xerox http://www.xerox.com.co/ 

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Newspapers

This page provides an easy to use tool for referencing the world's newspapers buy numerous filters http://www.newspapers.com/
The TICO Times - This is Central America’s leading English-language newspaper. http:// www.ticotimes.net 
La Nación - This is the leading Costa Rican Spanish-language newspaper out of San Jose.   http://www.nacion.co.cr 

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Technical Standards

Costa Rica - Workshops - Summary - Standards and Non-Tariff Barriers

http://www.sice.oas.org/

SICE - Main page Costa Rica

http://www.sice.oas.org/

Text: Costa Rica Meets International Aviation Safety Standards

http://usembassy.state.gov/

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Travel and Tourism 

Cocori Complete Costa Rica

http://www.cocori.com/ 

Costa Rica Hotel and tours information. Discounts & Offers

http://www.ahcostarica.com/ 

Costa Rica Hotels, Maps, Weather, Travel and Tourism Information

http://www.costaricapages.com 

Costa Rica In-focus magazine - tourism, travel, business, information, lodging and services.

http://www.zurqui.com/

Costa Rica In-focus magazine - tourism, travel, business

http://www.zurqui.co.cr/

Costa Rica Naturally

http://www.tourism.co.cr/ 

Costa Rica Net

http://www.costaricanet.net/ 

Costa Rica Supersite. Travel Guide to Paradise

http://www.incostarica.net/ 

Costa Rica tourism and travel bureau

http://www.costaricabureau.com/ 

costa rica tourism and travel bureau - National Parks

http://www.costaricabureau.com/

Costa Rica Tourism Board

http://www.tourism-costarica.com 

Costa Rica Travel & Tourism Webring

http://www.edenia.com/webring 

Costa Rica Travel and Business Information: hotels, tours...

http://www.costaricapages.com/ 

Costa Rica's Largest Tourism Site (Costa Rica's TravelNet)

http://www.centralamerica.com/

Info Costa Rica .com

http://www.infocostarica.com/ 

One Costa Rica Home Page.

http://www.onecostarica.com/ 

The Costa Rica Internet Directory, travel, business, education

http://www.arweb.com/cr/ 

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Transportation

In addition to the following links, the following guide may be of help: Questions for Your Forwarder.  It has links to several directories of worldwide freight forwarders and logistics companies.

Coach Costa Rica - full service transportation

http://www.coachcostarica.com/ 

Costa Rica Transportation

http://www.tyzo.com/

Costa Rica: local transportation - vans, airlines, charters

http://www.costaricauncovered.com/

Interbus Online - Transportation Solutions in Costa Rica for the Travel Industry

http://www.costaricapass.com/ 

Lonely Planet World Guide | Destination Costa Rica | Introduction

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Tamarindo Beach Info http://visittamarindo.com 

Transportation in Costa Rica

http://www.ahcostarica.com/

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US Government

US Commercial Service, Costa Rica http://www.buyusa.gov/
US Dept of State's Background Notes http://www.state.gov/
US Dept of State's Consular Information Sheet  http://travel.state.gov/
US Embassy, San Jose http://usembassy.or.cr/ 
CIA Factbook http://www.odci.gov/

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Weather

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Date Updated: March 27, 2007

 
 

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