As a meeting that served to establish alliances and collaborations, learn about the potential and willingness of business entrepreneurs to bet on a prosperous and sustainable nation, and recognize the support of the State towards these figures, the 1st Wholesale Trade Exchange Forum was qualified. with the new economic actors, COMAE 2021.
The event, held this Saturday at the Havana Convention Center, became the culmination of the I Economic-Productive Conference Cuba 2021, which began in October, and many of its almost 200 participants -representing 21 entities from various sectors and MSMEs , non-agricultural cooperatives (Cna), local development projects and self-employed workers – agreed on how useful, profitable and stimulating it was.
Both in the plenary hall and in various stands, goods and services were exhibited, and in the presence of Joel Queipo Ruiz, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party and head of its Economic Department, and of Betsy Díaz Velázquez, Minister of Internal Trade, and of officials from other agencies, some leaders of private ventures expressed their opinions or concerns.
First of all, they thanked the Ministry and the Chamber of Commerce for organizing this meeting, which allowed the best practices or experiences of the new economic actors to be known, possible contracts were arranged, and proposed, for example, that the municipality listen and identify them. for the sake of greater state aid and systematic exchanges are carried out in which policy-makers are present.
Some representatives of Mipymes even highlighted the need for all of them to contribute to local development, with projects that, in addition to helping to expand and diversify productions, are sources of employment and have a social component.
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In this regard, Queipo Ruiz stated that the event exceeded his expectations as the interventions were to have a more prosperous country, which reaffirms the concept that you – he told them – are economic actors of the Cuban socialist system and are fighting for a chain with the entities of the State not only in the productive and economic order, but also socially.
He pointed out that just concerns about obstacles with banking institutions, the availability of premises for new private businesses and the payment of certain goods and services in MLC will be channeled with a view to giving them a response or solution, while announcing the holding of another forum in December broad with these figures, organizations and companies, for the sake of the necessary comprehensiveness and complementarity.
In summarizing the meeting, the Minister of Internal Trade highlighted that COMAE 2021, held under the slogan of For a prosperous and sustainable wholesale trade, had among its objectives to enhance the role of wholesale companies as part of the process of updating the Cuban economic model, to generalize the best experiences and good practices in coordinating production chains and perfecting the organization of this activity and its impact.
As a result of the forum, we agreed to set up a working group sponsored by the Ministry and the Chamber of Commerce to, in conjunction with wholesale companies and importers, seek solutions in post to achieve greater efficiency in import management, reducing costs, delivery deadlines. stable delivery and supply, said Díaz Velázquez.
Entities from the Ministries of Construction, Industry, Domestic Trade, Food Industry and Agriculture, as well as the Business Administration Group (GAE) presented their main goods and services, while between the MSMEs and Cna they did so Dforja Creaciones, Addimensional, TATINE SRL, Sustainable Recycling, Elanova Producciones SURL, Acubamos, Imaq, Home Deli, Kikun, Crea Entorno, Cubela ‘s, Pixel Solution and ALTEC.
