EXPOALADI 2023 retook its face-to-face meetings after three years of virtual participation due to the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Delegations from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela attended the meeting.
The tenth edition of this event is taking place at PABEXPO fairgrounds in Havana until this Wednesday, where an estimated 364 companies from those 13 Latin American nations, 208 of them exporters and 156 importers, were present.
This two-day event was an opportunity for Cuban companies whose commercial and financial operations are hampered by the genocidal economic blockade imposed by the US Government more than 60 years ago, which has had a significant impact on the Cuban population.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo, and Foreign Trade and Investment’s First Deputy Minister Ana Teresita González attended the opening ceremony of this event.
Undersecretary of Cooperation, Technical Assistance, and Support for Relatively Less Economically Developed Countries, Mónica Martínez, attended the meeting on behalf of ALADI.
The meeting focused on the exchange of goods in the agribusiness and livestock, food and beverages, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, textiles, clothing and footwear, plastics, containers, and packaging sectors, which play a significant role in regional economies.
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