Mangosteen, pitahaya, guanabana, passion fruit, uchuva, ipecacuana, pejibaye and carambola are some of the agricultural products with potential to export to markets such as Europe and America.
From a report by Procomer of Costa Rica entitled "Opportunities for commercialization of incipient agricultural products":
PROCOMER has carried out an analysis of agricultural products that have possibilities for production and expansion at the national and international level, but whose exports are few or none at all.Through the support of PROCOMER's Trade Promotion Offices, state agencies and research centers, 8 products with the highest potential for international marketing were selected: Mangosteen, pitahaya, guanabana, passion fruit, uchuva, ipecac, pejibaye and carambola.
New consumption habits in developed markets are creating new opportunities for fruits such as mangosteen, dragon fruit, soursop, passion fruit, gooseberry, ipecac, pejibaye and starfruit.
From a report by PROCOMER, Costa Rica entitled "Emerging opportunities in sales of agricultural products"
The Chinese tariff for unroasted coffee dropped from 50% to 8%, medicines decreased from 30% to 4%, fishmeal from 11% to 2% and plastics, from 50% to 6.5%.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador:
The Ministry of Economy held an event with the aim of publicizing new business opportunities that have emerged in the mainland market, after El Salvador decided to raise the tariff reserve in place since 2001 on products of Chinese origin.
In the past three years exports of nontraditional products have seen an increase of $900 million.
The head of the ministry of economy, Armando Flores, on the occasion of the presentation of the Accountability Report noted that in the last year alone the increase has been $290 million.
Meanwhile foreign sales of traditional products in the last three years increased by $1 million.
Ethnic beverages, tiger nut milk and barley will now pay a 9% tariff when entering the United States.
Until last year, these products entered the country tariff-free.
"The Department of Internal Security analyzed the products and removed the tariff exoneration, arguing they are in the category of powder drinks with more than 29% sugar. They also warned to retroactively charge the tariff beginning 2007", reports Elsalvador.com.
As of May 2009, registered exports were $1.6 Billion, $306 million less than the same period in 2008.
2008 was a year of record growth in the export sector in El Salvador, with an increase of 14%. However, the Central Reserve Bank (BCR, acronym in Spanish) forecasts a contraction of 15% in exports by the end of 2009.
According to preliminary data from BCR published in an article by Irene Valiente on Laprensagrafica.com, “The traditional products (coffee, sugar, shrimp) have felt a decline of 10.9% annually, equivalent to $194.7 million. The reductions were in both value and in volume.”