Trying to sell more Idaho goods

Idaho Governor Butch Otter is in Cuba this week to help discuss trade between country leaders and the Gem State. Otter is leading a 35 member delegation to Cuba in effort to sell more Idaho goods. Read More

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Vietnam helps produce Cuban Vaccine

Enterprises from Vietnam and Cuba started cooperated production Friday of the first lot of a Hepatitis B vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Read More

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Cuba studies property issue in quest for efficiency

Cuban economists and other professionals held their first meeting this week in search of answers to inefficiency, theft, poor service and quality in the state-run socialist economy, the official media said. Read More

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Bee honey production up in Las Tunas, Cuba

Beekeepers in eastern Las Tunas province are bent on breaking a production record set in 1983, when they turned out 360.4 tons of honey. Read More

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NDA, soybean officials work on deal to send soybeans to Cuba

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) is partnering with the Nebraska Soybean Board to find sources of soybeans in the state for shipment to Cuba Read More

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Cuba, China pledge to build on growing trade

Chinese Deputy Trade Minister Wei JianGuo and Cuban Government Minister Ricardo Cabrisas said in Havana that they had set up a commission to work on joint investments in various sectors. Read More

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Cuba says U.S. rules limiting food trade

Cuba signed up to import more U.S. food products this week but said payment procedures introduced by the Bush administration in 2005 were hindering trade and forcing it to make deals with other countries. Cuba has been importing food like rice and chicken from the United States since 2000, when cash-only food sales were permitted as a exception to the U.S. trade embargo, turning Cuba's ideological foe into its top foreign supplier. Read More

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Cuba to increase oil production

Cuba will increase oil production by 100,000 tons this year, compared to 2006, according to Carlos Lage Davila, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers. On Saturday, Lage and Basic Industry Minister Yadira Garcia attended the opening of the Siboney 01 well by Empresa de Perforacion y Extraccion de Petroleo del Centro. The well will be 9,580 feet deep and will have a maximum inclination angle of 55 degrees. Read More

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Cuba sees economy growing 10 percent in 2007

Cuba expects its economic growth to slip down a gear this year to around 10 percent but remain among the strongest in the region, a senior government official said on Thursday. Read More

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Cuba holds petrol, geoscience conferences

Geologists from 20 nations on Tuesday attended the Petroleum and Gas Congress in Havana, the first of its kind there. The conference will focus on long-distance and horizontal drilling, deep-water exploration, production and transport, and refining of extra-heavy crude. Read More

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