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Breast implants are up this year

The sales abroad of medical implants, including those used to enhance breasts and the ones that help lose weight, increased markedly this year’s first two quarters. Costa Rica exported $134 million worth of this type of implements from January through June. The amount is 452 percent higher than the one reported in the same period in 2007 ($24 million), according to data from the Promoter of Foreign Trade (PROCOMER in Spanish). The United States is the market for 65 percent of these exports. In addition, Allergan is investing $7 million in a new plant next to its current one in the Global Park Free Zone in Heredia. The firm is gradually closing its plant in Ireland and increasing the production of implants in Costa Rica