The Ministry of Foreign Trade (Comex) in Costa Rica is negotiating with China to define export protocols for pineapples and melons, reported the Financial Capital. According to the Journal these products hope to have phytosanitary certification. Health protocols are created to comply with the standards set by the importing country and also to ensure regular [...]
Costa Rica like every country has people that look to take advantage of others in the pursuit of financial gain, otherwise known as scammers or scam artists. They will use the inadequacy of the legal system, the unethical lawyers, or the banking laws to take money out of your pocket and put it in theirs leaving you [...]
In a candid interview with The Costa Rica News (TCRN), Dr. Marco Muñoz Peralta, gave us his views about Health Tourism and the Dental problems facing the Baby Boomers! TCRN: Couldn´t help noticing your full waiting rooms. Is this norm? Dr. Marco: Yes, it is. Year after year with basically only ¨word of mouth¨ as [...]
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica and ARMONK, N.Y., May 10, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) officially opened today its new Costa Rica Delivery Center, in America Free Zone, Heredia. IBM will invest US$300 million over 10 years, and intends to employ up to 1,000 people by 2014. The new center will provide high-value services [...]
From Tico Times – The Inter-American Development Bank (BID) approved $670 million in loans to finance the Reventazón Hydroelectric Dam – the most complex hydroelectric project ever built in Costa Rica – near the Caribbean slope town of Siquirres. The 305.5 MW project is expected to provide energy for some 525,000 families and comes with [...]
The Banco Nacional (BN) and the online payment firm PayPal announced last Thursday, April 26th, an alliance to facilitate electronic commerce in Costa Rica, thus allowing companies to use an internationally recognized system to send and receive payments in a faster and easier way. Although e-commerce has grown in the past years, internet sales have [...]
Most people’s ingrained perceptions of Puntarenas in the past were negative. I must admit when I was heading on the bus from San Jose to this Central Pacific port town I was prepared for the worst. I was told in the past by people that had travelled there it was a long bus trip and [...]
Costa Rica exports grew 16.1% in the first three months of 2012, by comparison with the same period of last year, according to the Promoter for External Commerce and the Ministry of External Commerce (Comex). From January to March, Costa Rica exported products with a value of 2,911 million Dollars (403 million dollars higher). The [...]
An exporting firm has informed FreshPlaza that for now weather conditions in Costa Rica are normal for pineapple production. In about fifteen days, the winter season in Costa Rica begins and the first rains are expected to start. According to producers, “Winter should not affect production greatly.” One of the phenomena caused by rain is the “Blow Water” [...]
(Bloomberg) – Costa Rica plans to start negotiating free trade agreements with South Korea and Colombia this year and complete an accord with members of the European Free Trade Area by October, the country’s trade minister said. South Korea and Colombia “have presented a feasibility study and we are basically waiting for Korea to be [...]
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