Private entrepreneurs and cooperatives in Cuba have only managed to sign 25 export contracts, despite the drive of these enterprises to participate more in foreign trade activities.
General director of foreign trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (Mincex), Vivian Herrera, has stated: “To date, the 37 companies designated to carry out export and import services to non-state forms of management have received 3,471 interests to develop some type of operation, and of these, 228 belong to non-agricultural cooperatives.”
In total, Cuban entrepreneurs have signed 456 contracts with the enterprises selected as mediators between that economic sector and the international market, but 431 of these businesses were to import the products necessary to develop their activities.
During the 1st Cuba 2020 Business Forum, Herrera explained that at the end of October, 493 forms of non-state management had been defined with the potential to export in many sectors, among which there is agri-food.
Source: oncubanews.com
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