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Cuba’s Havana Club rum is set to
enter the U.S. market “even if it were to open tomorrow,” according to
executives of the firm that exports 75 percent of its production. “We’re well prepared. We’ve spent 16 years
waiting for the opening of that market, which is the world’s biggest for rum,”
master rum distiller Jose Navarro told a press conference in Havana, to which
he presented the new image of the iconic firm’s rum that is aged for seven
years.
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Early this year, the mixed Cuban-French company, Pernod Ricard-Cuba Ron that markets Havana Club worldwide won the legal battle it has fought for more than 20 years with Bacardi for brand rights in the United States. Until that litigation was resolved, Bacardi sold the brand in the U.S., while Pernod Ricard has marketed it in the rest of the world since the mixed company was formed in 1993.
Havana Club International CEO Jerome Cottin-Bizonne said Monday that the company is preparing to open new markets, “including the U.S.,” which will only be accessible to a Cuban product once the embargo is lifted that the United States has imposed on the island for the last 50 years.
Though the two countries announced the beginning of a diplomatic thaw almost two years ago after five decades at daggers drawn, the embargo remains in place and its elimination is the chief demand of the Cuban government within the new relations.
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