Overview

• At a San José forum on Aug. 26, COMCE and Mexican exporters publicly endorsed Costa Rica as a full member of the Pacific Alliance.
• COMCE’s Sergio Contreras highlighted Costa Rica’s strengths in high technology, agroindustry, and medical devices, supported by strong education and skilled talent.
• He pointed to OECD membership and dual Pacific–Caribbean port connectivity as assets that could create a commercial bridge into Central America and speed trade routes.
• Contreras warned that high logistics costs and infrastructure gaps in Costa Rica must be addressed during the technical and political negotiation phase.
• Costa Rican ministers and ambassadors from member countries participated, as coverage reiterated that the Alliance’s 2014 protocol targets full intra-bloc tariff elimination by 2030.