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Establishing Trade Relations with Cuba
Name:
Establishing Trade Relations with Cuba
Date:
May 9, 2016
Time:
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CDT
Event Description:
Join MITA and learn how your company can get in on the first wave of business returning to Cuba! Paul D. Johnson is the Co-Chair of the United States Agriculture Coalition for Cuba and President of Chicago Foods International. Paul has spent the past twenty years studying the history, culture, economy and language of Cuba. He wrote his Master's Thesis on the Economic Development of Havana in 1999 and founded Chicago Foods International, Inc. that exports food products to Cuba. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Paul is also the co-chair of the United States Coalition for Cuba (USACC). The organization has grown from six members to well over 100 prominent members of the U.S. food and agricultural industry and is a national leader in helping to improve trade relations with Cuba.
