1000s of Tons of Arkansas Chicken Headed to Cuba
The island nation of Cuba said it intends to buy about 4,630 tons of chicken from Arkansas-based Ozark Mountain Poultry.
Ozark CEO Howard Otwell said the deal is worth about $2.5 million. The company is based in Rogers.
The chicken will be shipped through the Texas port of Corpus Christi.
Pedro Alvarez, the head of Cuba's food import company, signed an agreement with Corpus Christi port officials yesterday and promised to double the amount of Cuba-bound cargo coming through the port.
Most U.S. trade with Cuba is banned under a 45 year old U.S. embargo designed to undermine Fidel Castro's communist government.
But a law passed in the year 2000 allows American food and other agricultural products to be sold to Cuba.
Alvarez has said Cuba has contracted to buy $1.5 billion in American food since Castro's government began taking advantage of the U.S. law in late 2001.
Updated: 1/20/2006 5:48:24 AM
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The island nation of Cuba said it intends to buy about 4,630 tons of chicken from Arkansas-based Ozark Mountain Poultry.
Ozark CEO Howard Otwell said the deal is worth about $2.5 million. The company is based in Rogers.
The chicken will be shipped through the Texas port of Corpus Christi.
Pedro Alvarez, the head of Cuba's food import company, signed an agreement with Corpus Christi port officials yesterday and promised to double the amount of Cuba-bound cargo coming through the port.
Most U.S. trade with Cuba is banned under a 45 year old U.S. embargo designed to undermine Fidel Castro's communist government.
But a law passed in the year 2000 allows American food and other agricultural products to be sold to Cuba.
Alvarez has said Cuba has contracted to buy $1.5 billion in American food since Castro's government began taking advantage of the U.S. law in late 2001.
Updated: 1/20/2006 5:48:24 AM
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=22918
1 comment:
I dont agree with your comments.
I think that Castro regime have many errors in economical and political issues,but in all the world happens unethical wars,deprivation and death by hunger and diseases.Why worries so much about Cuba?Worry about Irak,worry about Mali and Somalia.
Worry about the people victims of erathqueake in Pakistan.
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