Cuba-USA Regulatory Dialogue Concludes in Washington

The USA and Cuba concluded in Washington the second regulatory dialogue with expectations to clear up the way for possible commercial ties

The two governments set up yesterday at the Department of Commerce the mechanism to advance in the relations, as of the opportunities offered by three packages of executive measures announced by President, Barack Obama, to ease the siege, the most recent of them in late January.

The meeting, whose the first edition was held in October in Havana, was opened by U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, and Cuban Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca.

Officials from the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and State are participating on the host side, while representatives from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central Bank, the Chamber of Commerce, and companies, do so on the Cuban side.