The hard-line rhetoric
against Cuba in Washington, D.C., has led to a chink in the diplomatic ties
formed in the Obama-era. However, the amount of food exports going from the
U.S. to Cuba paints a very different picture. The U.S-Cuba Trade Economic
Council released numbers showing that agricultural exports to Cuba totaled up
over $250 million in 2017. Those numbers stretch from January to November, and
they show an increase of $50 million in exports of food products and other
agricultural commodities in comparison to 2016. The report from the U.S.-Cuba
council shows that, in terms of overall dollar value, chicken makes up more
than half of the exports to Cuba. Chicken has consistently been at the top of
the list of the items that Cubans buy most from the U.S for a decade. The
island country also regularly purchases U.S. soybeans and corn. Cuba largely
relies on imports for agricultural products. However, U.S. policy toward Cuba
doesn’t allow private financing for Cubans to buy goods from the U.S., making
it tough for American producers to fully tap into the market.
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