A business meeting between state companies and private entrepreneurs from Cuba and Brazil It took place between Monday and Tuesday in Havana.
Brazilian and foreign trade entities participate, state and micros, small and medium -sized companies (MSMEs) Cuban interested in “taking advantage of existing potentialities to develop different projects”.
Em 2024, or comércio between Brazil and Cuba Totalizou USD 279 Milhões, increased MAIS of 25% Em Relação Ao anterior. Between Janeiro and August 2025, or Interâmbio Já approaches US $ 200 Milhões.
– Embaixada do Brazil Em Havana (@embrasilcuba) SEPTEMBER 22, 2025
According to the organizers and without having transcended the results of the exchanges, Brazilian businessmen seek to increase their presence in the Cuban market.
To do this, representatives of the food and trade sectors of food, drinks, construction and home products, footwear, hygiene items and fabrics arrived.
The meeting is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba and the Brazilian Agency for the Promotion of Exports and Investments (Apex-Brasil) with the purpose of “establishing links between products and services of the two states in strategic sectors”, points Latin press (PL).
In this way, according to PL, Brazil consolidates its position as one of the most important commercial partners of Latin America and the Caribbean.
A relationship with rising profits
In September 2023, Cuba and Brazil expressed the intention of expanding collaboration in foreign trade, with a memorandum of understanding signed by Apex-Brazil and the Directorate of Communication and Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (PROCUBA).
The president of Apex-Brazil, Jorge Viana, then considered that this association, including the participation of small and medium-sized companies in exports, was “vital to expand political and economic relations between Cuba and Brazil.”
The trade between both nations amounted to 279 million dollars last year, a figure that represents an increase of more than 25 % compared to the previous year, according to the Brazilian embassy in Havana.
Sign document to establish Cuban-Brazilian food and other goods company
Between January and August of 2025, meanwhile, the figure approached 200 million, required the same source from X.
The profits are increasing, but they are still far from approaching those that show the indices of the past; In years like 2013 they were achieved upper numbers at 620 million dollars.
This business meeting was inaugurated yesterday with the presence of the Minister of Foreign Trade and the Foreign Investment of the Island, Oscar Pérez-Oliva, and the Brazilian ambassador here, Cristian Vargas.
