The U.S. blockade against Cuba has severely affected the domestic trade system of the Caribbean nation, one more evidence of its constant extraterritorial violations against the normal development of the country.

The number of farming cooperatives and individual producers in Camaguey province has increased to 18, with a more advanced situation in the process of certification of areas by Plant Health for their incorporation to the import and export of products.

Cuba presented its export offer of goods and services for the Mexican market during a business seminar held Monday.

The production of spare parts and the extension of the useful life of equipment in Cuban factories and industries by members of the Association of Innovators and Rationalizers ( ANIR), allowed this entity to save the country more than 400 million pesos in 2020.

Farmers in the province of Cienfuegos are applying alternatives to improve crop yields due to the lack of fertilizers, motivated by the tightening of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and also by the global economic contraction after a year of COVID-19.
Yoan Sarduy, delegate of agriculture in Cienfuegos, told the press that there were deficits of inputs in this cold season that ended in February this year, and whose consequences will be seen in the low yields of the different crops.

The impossibility of purchasing antivirals for the hepatitis C patients such as Zepatier and Combo Abbie, patented by the U.S. pharmaceutical laboratory Gileat, is one of the effects of the blockade of Cuba in the Havana Institute of Gastroenterology.

Cuba already has 17 productive poles throughout the country with export potential, according to Vivian Herrera, general director of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), in her Twitter profile.

The launch of the Cuban rum brand El Valle in China favors the consolidation of the presence of the island’s products in that important Asian market, said Cuban ambassador to Beijing Carlos Miguel Pereira on his facebook account.

The Laguna Azul Iberostar Hotel in the popular Varadero tourist center, western Matanzas province, will reopen its doors to vacationers on April 18 after a shutdown period due to the COVID-19 spread on the island.

The Cuban-Spanish BRAVO meat processing company, which provides Cubans with a varied array of highly demanded products, has been impacted by the restrictions imposed by the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island.

With more than 3,500 pieces of furniture, the MADUC (wood, hardness and quality) Furniture Base Enterprise Unit in this city, marketed products worth more than four million pesos.

The shortage of spare parts and essential medical equipment components are the main problems affecting the work of the Provincial Center of Clinical Engineering and Electromedicine of this eastern province as a result of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel made a call to cut red tape, boost production and benefit producers during a meeting where a new set of measures was proposed to boost agricultural production.

The National Company of Industrial Gases is moving towards exporting its products for medicinal purposes, after certifying last January the nitrous oxide (anesthetic gas) by the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED), the country's regulatory authority.