Overview

• COMCE, led by Sergio Contreras, publicly endorsed Costa Rica’s full membership at the Aug. 26 forum El Camino hacia la Alianza del Pacífico in San José.
• Contreras pointed to strengths in high technology, agroindustry and medical devices, plus export leadership, OECD status and port links to the Pacific and Caribbean.
• He said Costa Rica could serve as a bridge to Central America and support diversification toward Asia-Pacific markets.
• Identified obstacles included high logistics costs and the need for infrastructure upgrades to capture the expected benefits.
• Costa Rican ministers and member-state ambassadors attended, with Mexico’s envoy calling the step a route to more modern, competitive and inclusive integration; no formal accession action was announced as the alliance pursues full tariff elimination by 2030.