SLP, Mexico.- This Friday, the Cuban regime announced that, after the entry into force of the Resolution 56 of 2024 of the Ministry of Internal Trade, which prohibits wholesale trade for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), these must change their corporate purpose.
According to what was stated by the press official, the Ministry of Economy and Planning will begin a process of “modification” of the corporate purpose of MSMEs that have approved commerce in their main activity and express their desire to continue doing so on a wholesale basis.
The decision They must communicate it to the email [email protected] and to do so they will have a period of 90 days.
Otherwise, according to the provision, if an email is not received indicating that you wish to continue with the wholesale trade activity (which will now be done through the companies of the regime), it will be understood that the trade they have approved is retail, and it will be They will cancel the licenses for the wholesaler.
“The rest of the MSMEs and CNAs that have commerce as their secondary activity and wish to modify their corporate purpose to comply with the mandate of Decree 107 of 2024 and the aforementioned Resolution, will carry out their procedure in the usual way through the Platform of Economic Actors”, expresses the note from the official Cubadebate.
A resolution published on December 5 obliges the MSMEs to sell wholesale only with the mediation of the Government.
The text cancels ex officio “the licenses to carry out wholesale activity, issued to micro, small and medium-sized companies.” private and non-agricultural cooperatives that have it approved in their corporate purpose as a secondary activity.”
With the alleged objective of “ordering” the trade wholesale and retail in MSMEs, the regulations declare that these businesses whose main objective is production may wholesale market only their own products.
Furthermore, they must do so strictly through contracts with state entities or through state wholesalers.
MSMEs and self-employed workers may sell retail as long as it is approved in their corporate purpose or project and they have a commercial license to do so.
On the contrary, MSMEs whose secondary activity is marketing wholesalers will have their licenses automatically canceled by the Central Commercial Registry, thus preventing them from carrying out the activity. Likewise, self-employed workers who were dedicated to this field will see their registration disappear from the registry.
Almost all MSMEs, except state ones and a single private one (G&G Mayoristas SURL, approved in March 2023), have been affected by the provision.
In Cuba, 8,623 micro, small and medium-sized companies have been approved. Some 8,000 MSMEs, non-agricultural cooperatives (CNAs) and self-employed workers (TCPs) had been granted business licenses with wholesale trade as a secondary activity since August 2022.
However, since September 2021, the activity already appeared as the main object of at least one state MSME (SERVOLEM), which was among the first 35 approved for that date; At that time, wholesale trade did not appear as a secondary activity in any company.
