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Foreign trade, foreign investment and international cooperation, keys in the development of Guantanamo
The existence of two export poles in the province, place #Guantánamo with ample potential to advance in the increase of exports of leading products in the territory such as coffee, cocoa, charcoal and coconut, the latter with its different derivatives including the substrate powder; Items to which are added others of great demand in the international market and that are called to become important sources of income such as eel, honey, varieties of natural fruits and turmeric.
This was revealed in the provincial balance of foreign trade activities, foreign investment and international cooperation, key areas in the economic and social, prospective and sustainable development of the Cuban Upper East. In the meeting chaired by Daniel Urrutia, director of Territorial Attention of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), the progress in terms of exports was recognized, with more than 3,759 tons marketed, in a year like 2021 that was signed due to the traumatic effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, the international economic crisis and the intensification of the Yankee blockade on Cuba. The concretion of an adequate business management strategy also allowed the sale of coffee, eel and coconut substrate at better prices, achieving the overfulfillment of the plan in values ??of more than 269 million 517 thousand pesos, 119 percent above of what was planned. It is a goal for Guantánamo in 2022 to increase the insertion in the world market of natural fruits and its leading exportable products, with the expansion of commercial operations in the two export poles of the province: the coffee processor Captain Asdrúbal López Vázquez, with its trade name Alto Serra, and the Baracoa agroforestry and coconut company. “A purpose that is possible with the wide export potential that is opening up in Guantánamo, explained Daniel Urrutia, a director who pointed out the need to “continue applying an adequate financing management strategy through international cooperation projects.”
