| US state signs Cuban trade deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4521120.stm Quote:
The governor of the US state of Maine, John Baldacci, has signed a multi-million dollar trade deal with Cuba's state-run food agency Alimport.
Under the deal, Alimport will buy Maine products worth $20m (£11.3m) by July 2007,including seed potatoes, fish and dairy cattle.
Mr Baldacci is due to meet Cuban President Fidel Castro later on Monday.
Food sales on a cash basis to Cuba are legal under a federal law from 2000 - an exception to the US trade embargo.
| Looks like the whole isolation of Cuba is really working, isn't it? 
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
-George Best, on being asked what he did with his footballing fortunes. | 
Dec 12, 2005, 09:16 am
