Farm Futures
The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee will hold a hearing on U.S.-Cuba policy next Wednesday. According to Chairman John Tanner, D-Tenn., the hearing will consider whether relaxing current Cuba travel and trade restrictions would advance U.S. economic objectives as well as democracy and human rights in Cuba. Tanner says it's clear to him that the embargo has failed to achieve its objectives and has shut U.S. workers, farmers and businesses out of the Cuban market.
Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., has introduced legislation to expand U.S. farm exports to Cuba and hopes to move it out of his committee before Memorial Day. Peterson's bill, the Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act, would also make it easier for American citizens to travel to Cuba to facilitate new agriculture sales.
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JG: The U.S. embargo against Cuba has got to go. It does not hurt Fidel or Raul. It hurts the Cuban people, and American businesses are effectively being shut out of the Cuban market. Brazil, China, Canada, Spain and other countries are laughing all the way to the bank!
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