Executive action on Cuban goods

[Dill]

(10-14-2016, 03:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/14/obama-cuba-regulations-expands-trade-travel-rum-cigars/92042662/


Now, it will be some time before we can purchase things like cigars and rum here in the US from Cuba because of trademark situations that the article doesn't go into. Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba, Bolivar, Partagas, Punch, H. Upmman, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Trinidad, San Cristobal, Saint Luis Rey, La Gloria Cubana, and the list goes on. All of those brands are trademarked by SA Habana, and by tobacco companies in the US. So in order for these to be sold here there has to be a lot of things hashed out, especially since the trademarks were filed for by families that escaped revolutionary Cuba. Now, most of these trademarks are now owned by international behemoths, but those families that escaped are still a big part of the tobacco industry (see Fuente and Padron) and so it could be a very interesting road ahead.

But, this is something the industry has had plans for in place for a long time. Those lobbyists are hard at work right now, I am sure.

As a cigar lover, I hope this situation is resolved soon.