CUBA BUSINESS SECTION - Havana Journal > Cuba-US Trade
On Tuesday April 8th, the Cuba Business Roundtable at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami will begin a quarterly series of live public telephone conference calls hosted by some of the top ICCAS Cuba experts and special guests.
This special series will begin exploring the challenges and opportunities that businesses will encounter in a post-Castro, post-embargo Cuba. The series is designed to help business executives, attorneys, and other professionals to keep up-to-date on Cuban events relevant to business opportunities in a post-Castro, post-Embargo Cuba.
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http://www.billingsgazette.net | By TOM LUTEY
Montana pea and lentil growers have negotiated a $7.8 million sale to Cuba.
The deal announced this week will move nearly 15,000 tons of crops from one of the fastest-growing segments of Montana farming. More important, the agreement gives the state a toehold in one of the most difficult markets for American businesses.
Decades-old trade restrictions with the communist country have made selling goods there nearly impossible for American farmers. U.S. foreign policy prohibits money from changing hands directly between Cuba and American businesses.
Foreign deposit…
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By WILL WEISSERT | Associated Press
The United States remained Cuba’s main supplier of food and farm products in 2007, selling the communist-run island more than $600 million in agricultural exports despite its trade embargo, a top official said Monday.
Cuba imported roughly the same amount of agricultural products as it did in 2006, but rising production and transportation costs forced it to spend $30 million more than the $570 million it paid two years ago for the same goods, said Pedro Alvarez, chairman of Cuba’s food import company Alimport.
Alvarez’s comments came during…
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By Ray Sánchez | Sun Sentinel
Cuba’s most significant trade event concludes today, although the number of U.S. companies in attendance this year dropped 30 percent to 100.
But executives representing 16 Florida firms were there again this year, about as many as attended when American food executives began participating in the fair in 2001. Cuban trade was an investment in the future, they said, even as the Bush administration tightens financial sanctions and sales dwindle.
“The biggest companies in America are here: Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland and Perdue,” said John Park Wright IV,…
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The Associated Press
Ralph Kaehler and farmers like him have done millions of dollars in business with Cuba over the past five years, riding out the ups and downs of the Communist-ruled island’s turbulent relations with its capitalist neighbor to the north.
Kaehler has been to Cuba a dozen times since his sons, Cliff and Seth, became special guests at Fidel Castro’s 2002 trade show. He says the Cubans are still buying, just not as much.
Next month, Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Gene Hugoson will visit to Havana to check on the state’s declining business…
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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. (NASDAQ: CUBA) (the “Fund”) announced initial terms of its Non-Transferable Rights Offering that was originally announced on July 24, 2007. The Record Date for the Rights Offering will be September 26, 2007. Pursuant to the Rights Offering, the Fund will distribute to Record Date stockholders one non-transferable right (“Right(s)”) for each share of the Fund held on the Record Date. For every Right that a stockholder receives, the stockholder may subscribe for one new share of the Fund (“Share(s)”) at the subscription price. The number of Rights to be issued to a stockholder…
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By Ron Smith | Southwest Farm Press Editorial Staff
Liberalized trade with Cuba could double or triple the volume of agricultural exports leaving the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas.
“The Trade Sanctions and Reform Act allows (U.S. interests) to sell agricultural products, medicine and lumber to Cuba,” says Michael Perez, director of port operations and business development for the Port of Corpus Christi.
Perez, during a recent National Cotton Council Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) tour, said Cuba currently buys some citrus, beans, and other agricultural products from the United States. They also purchase utility…
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Bradenton.com
Head of U.S.-Cuba Trade Association in Sarasota to tell of nation’s dealings without U.S.
Cuba is doing billions of dollars in trade with other countries and is set to explore vast deposits of oil and natural gas off its shoreline while the United States continues to sit on the sidelines.
That was the general message delivered Thursday by Kirby Jones, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade Association, to members of the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce’s International Business Council during a presentation at the University of South Florida.
Despite the 40-year-old U.S. trade…
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U.S. AGRICULTURE SALES TO CUBA WOULD GROW SIGNIFICANTLY IF U.S. TRADE AND TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS WERE LIFTED, SAYS ITC
The United States could provide more than half of Cuba’s agricultural, fish, and forest product imports if certain U.S. trade and travel restrictions to Cuba were lifted, reports the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in its publication U.S. Agricultural Sales to Cuba: Certain Economic Effects of U.S. Restrictions.
The U.S. share of such Cuban imports would rise from one-third to between one-half and two-thirds if the restrictions were lifted, according to the report.
The ITC, an…
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