The Government of the province of Las Tunas assesses the potential direct exporters between the business community and the self-employed in the territory, in accordance with the new legal regulations in force.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Although it is a long way to go, its officials assured that both the state and non-state sectors could place their products directly on the international market in the medium term.
Salvador Sariol Vistasrte, head of the Department of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, commented that he has already held exchanges with organizations and institutions in charge of specifying the new door to export and import, recently opened by the Cuban State. "We have already identified a group of entities and self-employed workers with potential for export," he said.
In mid-August, new export and import possibilities came into force for forms of non-state management, and others had been announced earlier for state-owned companies. Sariol Vistorte said that green and root vegetables produced by 29 agricultural cooperatives look promising, as well as the proposals of a dozen artisans, along with other assortments of entrepreneurs from Las Tunas such as colonial slabs.
“In the coming days we will have other meetings with the producers to expand their information on the details of the current regulations. Organizations such as banks, Finance and Prices, Economy and Planning and others will participate in these contacts,” he announced.
About 25 lines of state entrepreneurship are exported today from Las Tunas, but indirectly, through commercial entities located outside the territory. However, the manager considered that the Integral Agriculture and Livestock Company of Las Tunas, as well as the Fishing, Forestry, Tobacco, Sugar and Beekeeping companies would have a more promising path towards the goal of being direct exporters.
"With the recent incentives we are sure that not only the quantity of exported products will increase but also the participation of our economy in foreign markets", he concluded.
