Comments on: Cuban Exports

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:05:20 +0000

Bring on the kosher, Cuban sugar Coca-Cola!

By: davod

davod — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:09:28 +0000

The embargo against Cuba may be detrimental to the US. It does not stop the Cubans selling their crop elsewhere.

By: BJ Feng

BJ Feng — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:55:30 +0000

I believe that the Cuban peso is set equal to the dollar. That is the official exchange rate is 1 to 1. Artificially high exchange rates could be another reason Cuba's exports aren't competitive. The only thing of value Cuba exports that comes to my mind are cigars.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:24:47 +0000

Yes, I would say offhanded human figures in capital improvements. Just about everywhere, of course, but most pertinent to your point, is the transportation infrastructure as regards sugar. Last I knew, Huber was still running with steam locomotives to transport their crop from the fields. That's a practice that even China has gotten out of, just recently.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:17:34 +0000

I think you may be confusing cause and effect, M. Murcek. Here in the U. S. we pay the highest prices in the world for sugar—because of the embargo on Cuban sugar and the subsidies on domestic sugar. That makes substitutes more attractive.

By: M. Murcek

M. Murcek — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:04:38 +0000

Given the enormous substitution of high fructose corn syrup(made in the USA)for cane sugar in US foods, does cuba's sugar even matter?