24 June, 2008

Cuba-Venezuela Trade Continues Upward

US $1.8 billion in trade in the first five months of 2008

JUAN ANTONIO BORREGO, special correspondent

CARACAS.— Bilateral trade between Cuba and Venezuela amounted to US $2.7 billion in 2007 and continues to grow and diversify with reciprocal interest in the two countries respective markets.

At a press conference yesterday in Caracas, Odalys Seijo, vice president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, and Octavio Martinez, economic advisor at the Cuban embassy in Venezuela, informed that in the first five months of 2008 the commercial flow reached US $1.8 billion, $800 million more than during...

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