Cuban tradeshow in Mexico does expectations one better

Cuba’s Expo Tradeshow that came to a magnificent close Sunday in the Mexican city of Merida –in the state of Yucatan- lived up to both Cuban and Mexican entrepreneurs’ expectations.

“We’re leaving fully satisfied because the event rose to the expectations,” said Antonio Luis Carricante, Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Chairman of the island nation’s Chamber of Commerce as he wrapped up the Cuban fair, local newspaper Por Estoi reported.

In the same breath, the Cuban high-ranking official indicated the event laid bare the wide range of possibilities available to businesspeople from both nations when it comes to carrying out commercial operations that the two parties expect to raise to as many as $200 million on a yearly basis.

According to experts, the four-day fair made a very positive splash in corporate Mexico as it exhibited Cuba’s breakthroughs in the fields of industry, farming, education, health care, tourism and transportation.

Future joint-venture investment , plans to take the event to other Mexican states and an official invitation for Mexican entrepreneurs to attend Havana’s International Fair –scheduled for Nov. 2 to 9 this year- were some of the tradeshow’s highlights.

Cuban and Mexican companies are currently involved in bilateral trade operations that embrace building materials and supplies, containers and other stuff, with plans in the offing to take those ties a few notches higher in the short run.