The Container Terminal (TC) of the Mariel Special Development Zone informed its clients that starting March 1st it will charge new economic actors in dollars, although it exempts state companies from the measure.
In a document to which he had access OnCuba It is announced that the TC Mariel will modify the billing and collection currency for services, “according to the rates currently approved in the official tariff” for MSMEs, cooperatives and other private individuals.
Notification Act. payment currency Companies that bring to FGNE
Until now, these new actors in the economy invoice the CUP, as highlighted in the communication signed by Yamila Barrios, Commercial Director of the TC.
The document, signed on February 10, points out that “any transfer made to a company recognized as state-owned will be invoiced with the current rates and applying the variable multiplier that has been used since 2021, maintaining the collection in CUP.”
The measure is a new step in the process of partial dollarization of the economy, announced repeatedly by the Cuban Government, which in December approved a new system for the management, control and allocation of currency.
Another trade in dollars: wholesale store inaugurated for the business sector in Cuba
The mechanism is based on a decree-law and three complementary regulations published in the Official Gazette which applies to legal entities, both national and foreign, as well as to natural persons “who carry out economic activity, local development projects and international cooperation.”
The TC was inaugurated on January 27, 2014, as a preamble to the celebration in Havana of the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, notes the ZEM website.
