Cuba buying more US farm products
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HAVANA Despite tighter American restrictions on Cuba, Havana has signed more deals to buy US cattle and wheat. It happened at a major international trade fair in Havana, where American businesses played a major role.
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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WHEREAS: In the last few months the US government has intensified its economic war on the people of Cuba by dictating new measures aimed at systematically hindering the external financial flows of our country, thus causing serious damage and creating
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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.
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Cuba announced that it is renewing ties with the European Union as well as all EU countries that have embassies on the island.
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Two suppliers say they will be able to provide Americans with an additional 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine and another 1 million doses of nasal flu spray.
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Regardless of changes in the world, China and Cuba have pledged to stay the course of independent development. The two countries should further expand their mutually beneficial
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Moving to wean its communist economic system from the U.S. currency, Cuba said that dollars will no longer be accepted at island businesses and stores in a dramatic change in how commercial transactions have been done here in more than a decade.
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Cuba announces a ban on commercial transactions in dollars in response to tighter US sanctions.
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Corn and soybean prices were slightly  higher on Friday, bouncing back from early losses made after a  government report said U.S. farmers this year would harvest  more bushels of each commodity than ever before.
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California, the top U.S. food producing state, has sent its first official agricultural trade mission to communist Cuba, looking to tap a potential $180 million food market.
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George SorosÂs money will, among other things, pay for fertilizers and improved seeds to raise crop yields, classrooms and health clinics.
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CHICAGO An insider&#39;s well-timed trades on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have given dairy farmers more money for their milk. The Chicago Tribune today reports that the head of the Dairy Farmers of America
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WASHINGTON - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.
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HAVANA, Sep 29 (IPS) - Several agreements designed to bolster bilateral  trade have breathed new life into relations between Cuba and  Russia, in which the pragmatism of business has replaced the  ideological affinities of the past.
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Cuba announced Monday that U.S. dollars will no longer be accepted at stores or other businesses on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way business has been done there over the past decade.
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US News, LOS ANGELES - Carlos Gutierrez, named as US secretary of commerce on Monday, left Cuba as a child when communists seized power and rose through the ranks of Kellogg Co.