In dollars, that means that exports grew from $ 74.9 million to 82.3 million.
Henríquez said that this growth is due to the recovery of industrial and agro-industrial exports such as palm oil, prepared medicines, boneless beef, milk, concentrated cream and canned salmon.
The most significant growth was in El Salvador (68.3%), Honduras (56.9%), Nicaragua (40.7%) and Guatemala (27.2%). Despite showing a recovery, exports to Costa Rica still showed a deficit of -12.5%.
To keep the momentum going, the Minister would like to continuing promoting Central American market penetration with multiple trade missions to each country in 2011.