[NYTr] Cuba Promotes Quality Domestic Products to Replace Imports

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Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
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Cuba Promotes Quality Domestic Products to Replace Imports

Havana, Dec 11 (acn) The importance of producing quality products in 
the national effort to substitute imports with domestic goods was 
highlighted by Communist Party Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado 
Ventura during a tour to workplaces in the Cuban eastern province of 
Guantanamo.

In conversations with administrators and workers at the Mano Guaso Tool 
Company, Machado Ventura emphasized the need to prioritize the quality 
indicator so that national products can compete with foreign ones. He 
also examined the handles for rakes, masons trowels, shovels and other 
tools made at the factory inaugurated in the 1960s by Ernesto Che 
Guevara.

Manager Orestes Fournier Garrido informed that these products used to 
be imported. He said that other lines of production are under study are 
for pick and axe handles using a hard wood found in the Guantanamo 
hillsides, reports Granma newspaper.

Machado Ventura also visited the Carlos Roloff Valve and Pump Industry, 
the Muebles Imperio furniture factory and INPUD Oriente home appliance 
plant, all hard at work to recover production and substitute imports.

At each workplace the Cuban Communist Party official showed interest in 
the current state of the work force and emphasized the importance of 
training new workers, especially young people, to increase production.

Machado noted that in the battle to substitute imports, cooperation 
between the different businesses and ministries is crucial and a key 
expression of unity.