ABSTRACT
U.S. business controlled strategic sectors of Cuba's economy, the structure and growth rate of which were subordinate to US interests. As a result, trade relations between Cuba and the United States conformed to the typical model of neocolonial exchange. Cuba has transformed its economic structure, diversified its industrial and agricultural production, created an economic and social infrastructure, and improved the educational, scientific, and technical standards of its people, among other social benefits. The United States must expect that Cuba will present as an agenda item for negotiation the compensations it is to receive for the damages caused by the actions taken by US administrations and by certain US enterprises. US exporters to Cuba would have to compete mainly with twelve nations: Spain, Argentina, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Holland, and Sweden, which account for 85 percent of Cuba's market-economy imports.
