HAVANA: A Texas trade delegation is arriving in Cuba with hopes of building a front-of-the-line trade position for renewed trade with the Caribbean nation long isolated by a U.S. trade embargo.
The Dallas Morning News reports the delegation landing in Havana Sunday is looking to expand Cuban imports of Texas agricultural products.
Texans have been working for years to lay a foundation for Cuban trade. In 2008, a 24-member delegation led by the state agriculture commissioner of the tie, Todd Staples, made a four-day agricultural trade mission to Cuba. Texas was selling about $25 million a year in agricultural goods to Cuba at the time under a food-and-medicine waiver in the U.S. trade embargo.
