Arkansas chicken company will receive a piece of Cuba trade
HAVANA The island nation of Cuba said it intends to buy about 4-thousand 630 tons of chicken from Arkansas-based Ozark Mountain Poultry.
Ozark C-E-O Howard Otwell said the deal is worth about two-point-five million dollars. The company is based in Rogers.
The chicken will be shipped through the Texas port of Corpus Christi.
Pedro Alvarez, the head of Cuba's food import company, signed an agreement with Corpus Christi port officials today and promised to double the amount of Cuba-bound cargo coming through the port.
Most U.S. trade with Cuba is banned under a 45-year-old U.S. embargo designed to undermine Fidel Castro's communist government.
But a law passed in the year 2000 allows American food and other agricultural products to be sold to Cuba.
Alvarez has said Cuba has contracted to buy one-point-five (b) billion dollars in American food since Castro's government began taking advantage of the U.S. law in late 2001.
HAVANA The island nation of Cuba said it intends to buy about 4-thousand 630 tons of chicken from Arkansas-based Ozark Mountain Poultry.
Ozark C-E-O Howard Otwell said the deal is worth about two-point-five million dollars. The company is based in Rogers.
The chicken will be shipped through the Texas port of Corpus Christi.
Pedro Alvarez, the head of Cuba's food import company, signed an agreement with Corpus Christi port officials today and promised to double the amount of Cuba-bound cargo coming through the port.
Most U.S. trade with Cuba is banned under a 45-year-old U.S. embargo designed to undermine Fidel Castro's communist government.
But a law passed in the year 2000 allows American food and other agricultural products to be sold to Cuba.
Alvarez has said Cuba has contracted to buy one-point-five (b) billion dollars in American food since Castro's government began taking advantage of the U.S. law in late 2001.
Copyright 2006 Associated Press.
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