Two Weeks in Costa Rica

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Originally Posted by JSH

Almost all the prepared goods were very expensive.(boxed pasta, jars of pasta sauce, cookies, chips, foreign cheeses, etc) Base ingredients were cheap.

At least in Brazil, even though import duties are quite high too, there are some large food-processing industries. Probably in a much-smaller Caribbean country, there is no economics of scale to make locally instead of sourcing from either the United States and Mexico, or eventually from Brazil and China...