In The Olympics, 110-Meter Hurdle Race Has Ten Hurdles. Senator Klobuchar's Reintroduced Cuba Legislation Has At Least Twelve In The United States Congress.
/Before Changing United States Laws, Senator Klobuchar And Her Co-Sponsors Need To Convince Cuba Government To Expand Opportunities For Micro, Small, And Medium-size Enterprises (MSMEs) And Make Commercial Infrastructure Regulatory Changes.
Cuba Needs To Authorize Direct Investment In And Direct Financing To MSMEs Which Biden-Harris Administration Authorized In May 2022.
United States Exporters- Those Companies Actually Exporting Agricultural Commodities And Food Products From The United States To Cuba Do Not Want To Extend Payment Terms To Cuba. Banks Do Not Want To Provide Financing. That’s A Problem For Legislation. Who Will Use Changes?
In The Olympics, The 110-Meter Hurdle Race Has Ten Hurdles. New Cuba Legislation Has At Least Twelve In The United States Congress.
One: “[W]e fully support Moscow’s position that the conflict in Ukraine was deliberately provoked by the West and NATO, and we understand that Russia was forced to launch a special operation.”
From Miami Herald: “Vladimir Putin’s top security adviser and close ally, Gen. Nikolai Patrushev, the Russian Security Council secretary, met with Cuba’s leader Raúl Castro and the country’s appointed president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in Havana on Wednesday to discuss “security cooperation.” Also present was Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, the head of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior, which oversees the country’s various intelligence agencies, the police and border guard. In his strongest statement yet, Díaz-Canel told Patrushev that “we fully support Moscow’s position that the conflict in Ukraine was deliberately provoked by the West and NATO, and we understand that Russia was forced to launch a special operation,” according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the official Russian government newspaper. Díaz-Canel’s statement did not appear in Cuban state media, which also did not disclose a visit by Patrushev and members of his staff to the Interior Ministry’s headquarters, which Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.”
Two: LINK- Despite Government Of Cuba Seeking US$1 Trillion In Reparations From The United States, It Opposed UN Resolution To Seek Reparations From Russia For Ukraine November 15, 2022
Three Through Twelve: Robert Menendez (D- New Jersey), Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate. Senator Menendez is of Cuban descent along with Marco Rubio (R- Florida) and Ted Cruz (R- Texas). In the United States House of Representatives, members of Cuban descent are: Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Florida), Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Florida), Carlos Giménez (R-Florida), Nicole Malliotakis (R-New York), Alex Mooney (R-West Virginia), María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), and Robert Menendez Jr. (D-New Jersey), son of Senator Robert Menendez. Representative Salazar is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives.
On 2 March 2023, Amy Klobuchar (D- Minnesota) submitted S. 653, “A bill to lift the trade embargo on Cuba” which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate. The initial co-sponsors were Jerry Moran (Republican, Kansas), Christopher Murphy (Democrat, Connecticut), Roger Marshall (Republican, Kansas), and Elizabeth Warren (Democrat, Massachusetts).
“Text: S.653 — 118th Congress (2023-2024) All Information (Except Text). As of 03/08/2023 text has not been received for S.653 - A bill to lift the trade embargo to Cuba. Bills are generally sent to the Library of Congress from GPO, the Government Publishing Office, a day or two after they are introduced on the floor of the House or Senate. Delays can occur when there are a large number of bills to prepare or when a very large bill has to be printed.”
Klobuchar, Moran, Murphy, Marshall, Warren Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Lift Trade Embargo on Cuba. The Freedom to Export to Cuba Act would create new economic opportunities for American businesses and farmers by boosting U.S. exports and allowing Cubans greater access to American goods
6 March 2023: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to lift the Cuba trade embargo. The Freedom to Export to Cuba Act would eliminate legal barriers preventing Americans from doing business in Cuba and create new economic opportunities by boosting U.S. exports and allowing Cubans greater access to American goods. The legislation repeals key provisions of existing laws that block Americans from doing business in Cuba, but keeps in place laws that address human rights or property claims against the Cuban government.
“I have long pushed to reform our relationship with Cuba, which for decades has been defined by conflicts of the past instead of looking toward the future,” said Klobuchar. “By ending the trade embargo with Cuba once and for all, our bipartisan legislation will turn the page on the failed policy of isolation while creating a new export market and generating economic opportunities for American businesses.”
“The unilateral trade embargo on Cuba blocks our own farmers, ranchers and manufacturers from selling into a market only 90 miles from our shoreline, while foreign competitors benefit at our expense,” said Moran. “This legislation will expand market opportunities for U.S. producers by allowing them to compete on a level playing field with other countries. It is time to amend our own laws to give U.S. producers fair access to market to consumers in Cuba.”
“We can expand opportunities for American businesses and farmers to trade with Cuba while still holding the Cuban government accountable for its human rights record. This bipartisan legislation is a smart fix that will create American jobs and benefit the Cuban people,” said Murphy.
“I’m proud to sign onto the Freedom to Export to Cuba Act. It’s important for the United States to boost our economic opportunities and increase market access for American-made goods. Repealing the current legal restrictions and trade embargo on Cuba allows for Kansas farmers, ranchers and manufacturers to expand their businesses to Cuba and opens the door to a large export market, while leaving in place measures to address human rights abuses,” said Marshall.
“It is long past time for us to normalize relations with Cuba,” said Warren. “This legislation takes important steps to remove barriers for U.S. trade and relations between our two countries and moves us in the right direction by increasing economic opportunities for Americans and the Cuban people.”
The Freedom to Export to Cuba Act repeals the current legal restrictions against doing business with Cuba, including the original 1961 authorization for establishing the trade embargo; subsequent laws that required enforcement of the embargo; and other restrictive statutes that prohibit transactions between U.S.-owned or controlled firms and Cuba, and limitations on direct shipping between U.S. and Cuban ports. Cuba relies on agricultural imports to feed the 11 million people who live there and the approximately 4 million tourists who visited in 2019 prior to the pandemic. The U.S. International Trade Commission found that if restrictions on trade with Cuba had been lifted, exports like wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans could increase by 166 percent within five years to a total of about $800 million.
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