Statistics show a 10% increase in exports from the US during the month of June 2024.
Lima, Peru – despite embargo that Washington applies to Havana – which the authorities of the Cuban regime use as a pretext to justify their lousy management of the national economy – exports of food products and agricultural goods from the United States to Cuba in June 2025 were 38,427,114 of dollars.
The figure, published by the site Cuba-Tradereflect the official statistics of the American Department of Agriculture and account for a 10% increase in relation to the month of June 2024.
In June of last year the Cuban regime acquired food and agricultural products from the US for the value of 34,916,865 of dollars, while in the same month of 2023 the number was 37,071,007.
The commercial exchange between Washington and Havana during the first months of 2025 has experienced a significant increase.
Official statistics indicate that since last January and until the end of June, Cuba spent 243,356,096 of dollars in the purchase of this type of merchandise from the North American country. This total represents an interannual increase of more than 15% compared to January-June 2024 (210,628,425 dollars).
Some of the amounts and goods exported to Cuba during that period were marble, travertine and alabaster ($ 23,521.00), enzymes ($ 13,498), Basmati rice ($ 128,000), bibs and pants with braces ($ 19,500), machines to work wire ($ 12,000), solar cells ($ 43,500), used vehicles ($ 12,153,265), motorcycles ($ 1,945,051) and bicycles ($ 22,160).
The island currently faces one of its worst economic crises after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, marked by a significant decrease in agricultural production, difficulties in access to international financing, and a sustained fall in foreign trade.
In the midst of that context, in 2024 the Cuban Minister of Internal Trade, Betsy Díaz Velázquez, acknowledged in the program Round tableon Cuban television, that the regulated family basket in Cuba depends “totally” on imported products.
“The population has the doubt of why, if it is said that the products are, they are not when they go to The winery. We are totally depending on import products, ”acknowledged the official.
The minister then recalled that the island imports around 80% of the foods it consumes.
