Chicken has become the top U-S product exported to Cuba

Chicken has become the top U-S product exported to Cuba

NEW YORK Arkansas companies are involved in selling food to Cuba.
A trade embargo is in effect with the communist nation, but food sales
are allowed.

Chicken has become the top U-S product exported to the Caribbean island
nation. That's according to the U-S Cuba Trade and Economic Council in
New York.

And that trade in chicken benefits companies like Arkansas' Tyson, which
sells some of its goods to traders who resell it to Cuba.

Chicken sales to Cuba were worth 60 (m) million dollars in 2005.

Meanwhile, U-S rice sales to Cuba declined 39 percent from the year
before. The trade group says that's probably because Cuba can receive
better financing from China and Vietnam, which are both communist countries.

Stuttgart-based Riceland Foods said its rice sales to Cuba are down. The
company says its last sale to Cuba was in November.

Copyright 2006 Associated Press

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