Canada fears U.S. trade blitz

Canada fears U.S. trade blitz

Canadian business firms worry that -- whenever the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is lifted -- they will be trampled by a stampede of U.S. corporations rushing to the island to cash in on the new market, an article in Monday's The Globe & Mail says. "Behind the scenes, American business lobbies have been increasing pressure on their government to ease or lift the 47-year-old embargo," the Toronto newspaper reports. "There's one reason for that: oil. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates almost 5 billion barrels of oil and almost 10 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lie below Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico. [...] U.S. oil giants want in." Canada is already losing out to the U.S. on grain sales, the paper says. "Canada remains among Cuba's biggest trading partners, with two-way trade totaling about 1.6 billion Canadian dollars last year. But foodstuffs accounted for little of Canada's CD$564 million in exports to the island, which consisted largely of machinery and equipment." In contrast, "U.S. grain growers saw sales to Cuba soar to more than US$400 million in 2007. [...] As a result, U.S. exports to Cuba are on track to surpass Canada's this year, likely the first time that has happened since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power." To read the entire article, click here.
---Renato Pérez Pizarro

April 28, 2008

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