06 April 2021 | For: Cuban News Agency
SOFTEL, DESOFT and SOLINTEL S.A., companies belonging to the Informatics and Communications Business Group (GEIC), took the first steps in the export and import process, for the benefit of non-state management of the economy. During the first quarter of this year, relations between state-owned companies and forms of self-employment increased in Cuba, with the aim of promoting the export of goods and services from the latter. In that sense, according to Vivian Herrera, general director of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), reported in her official profile on Twitter, the largest of the Antilles already has 41 companies that provide the management service of contracts between non-state workers and interested foreign clients. These relations, until the end of March, have consolidated the signing of more than 1,600 agreements, of which 79 are for export, explains the MINCEX directive in its tweet.
“We closed March 2021 with 41 companies that provide comex services and signed 1,661 contracts with the FGNE. Of them 79 for export #SiSePuede ”, Herrera tweeted. On this, the forms of non-state management in Cuba advance in the development of foreign trade activities and as a result of the contracts in the export area, the amount collected reaches five million, said María Isabel Pozo, director, in a tweet. of Imports of the MINCEX. Regarding the importance of the consolidation of this activity, the head of MINCEX, Rodrigo Malmierca, referred in the social network itself to the role of foreign capital for the progress of the national economy. Malmierca highlighted on Twitter the contribution of foreign investment as an element for financing local development projects, a primary objective of Cuba's economic and social development strategy. “Foreign investment is present in Strategy to boost the economy as a financing factor for development. Including local development projects is consistent with the role of the municipality in the new Constitution. #SomosCuba #NoMasBloqueo ”, the Cuban minister tweeted. In August 2020, new regulations were approved in the country that opened the doors for foreign trade to the non-state sector, and diversified the services and goods to be exported. At the end of last year, the country had 503 projects with foreign investment, 43 more than the previous year, and involving an amount of more than 12 billion dollars.