HAVANA.- After two years of pandemic, the Havana International Fair (FIHAV 2022) reopens today in Expocuba, one of the most important trade fairs in Latin America and the Caribbean, whose 38th edition has confirmed the participation of more than 60 countries, according to the organizing committee.
The presence not only of businessmen, but also of official delegations under the Presidency, is an expression of the confidence that the international community must do business in the Cuban market, despite the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government on the largest of the Antilles of a high chairman official.
Around 400 national companies will be exhibiting their goods and services, including mipymes and non-agricultural cooperatives, an excellent opportunity to give them visibility and forge links with other entities.
According to Antonio Luis Carricarte, President of the Chamber of Commerce, the objective is to encourage foreign investment and exports, as well as to diversify the market and products with greater added value, in order to make Cuba’s insertion on the international market sustainable and reduce imports. Raw materials.
The most represented foreign nations at FIHAV 2022 are China, Russia, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela, and for the first time the United Arab Emirates and the People’s Republic of Laos will participate, Rodrigo Malmierca, Head of Foreign Trade, announced a few days ago and foreign investment.
At the Expocuba fairgrounds, a traditional event of such an important event, more than 16,000 square meters of exhibition space have been contracted, “a figure close to the best in recent years,” he said, of which five thousand meters correspond to Cuban companies.
Important moments besides today’s opening of the fair are tomorrow, Tuesday, the 5th Investment Forum, where the new portfolio of business opportunities with foreign capital will be presented, several panels on economic issues will be held and the holding of its national holidays for 19 countries, which will give greater importance to their participation .
As part of FIHAV 2022, a new joint venture with the company Unilever will be inaugurated in the Mariel Special Development Zone itself, in addition to the fact that this strategic enclave will have its pavilion in Expocuba.