02.27.15
Cuban entrepreneurs can now look north the huge US market. Lenny Feldman, an attorney in the Miami office of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, told the Bradenton Herald that the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule permits self-employed workers to export to the US even though the US trade embargo against Cuba is still in effect. Specifically, the schedule encourages independent entrepreneurs who make soap, cosmetics, candles, waxes and polishes, perfume and related products.
Ted Piccone, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that many of the articles on the excluded list are those that are produced almost exclusively by state-owned enterprises.
“The point of this is to encourage the non-state sector,” Piccone told the newspaper. “Because of the embargo, we want to avoid doing business with any parts of government, but that’s difficult when the Cuban government controls almost the entire economy.”
Ted Piccone, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that many of the articles on the excluded list are those that are produced almost exclusively by state-owned enterprises.
“The point of this is to encourage the non-state sector,” Piccone told the newspaper. “Because of the embargo, we want to avoid doing business with any parts of government, but that’s difficult when the Cuban government controls almost the entire economy.”