The 41st Havana International Fair (FIHAV 2025) will be held from November 24 to 29, the most important multi-sector trade fair in Cuba and the Caribbean, as well as one of the most representative in Latin America. FIHAV is a great opportunity to learn not only about investment opportunities, exports, or imports from Cuba, but also to establish business with exporters, importers, and investors from all regions of the world.
The event was attended in 2024 by some 750 firms from 63 countries, including some 250 Cuban public and private companies, in 25 pavilions with an exhibition area of 19,400 square meters. Firms from Russia, China, Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, India, Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Argentina, and Panama, among others, participated.
Some 20 official delegations from Angola, Belarus, Brazil, Spain, Iran, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Russia, Venezuela, and others were present; as well as 27 delegations from Chambers and Trade and Investment agencies.
FIHAV hosts an Investment Forum, meetings with binational chambers; national days for the countries; business roundtables, seminars, conferences, and new product presentations.
Investment opportunities in Cuba include 607 projects in food, energy, tourism, sugar agroindustry and its byproducts, mining, transportation and logistics, construction, IT and telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and more. The year 2024 concluded with approximately 30 new businesses with foreign capital.
Cuba has 328 foreign-invested companies in operation: 112 joint ventures, 184 international economic partnership contracts, 62 businesses with 100% foreign capital, and 3 reinvestments. Inaugurated 12 years ago, in 2013, the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) has 64 companies from 21 countries, including 11 multinationals, with an investment of $3.2 billion. Among the transnational companies in Cuba are Unilever Plc, Nestlé, Lavazza, Altadis, Sherrit International, Trafigura, Melbana Energy, and Antilles Gold Limited of Australia, British American Tobacco, Meliá, and Kempinski.
Cuba offers investors advantages that go beyond the law, such as a secure and transparent legal framework, political, social, and legal stability, security for foreign personnel, and tax incentives. It also offers a highly skilled workforce, excellent education and health indicators, the largest market in the Caribbean, and a geographic location at the center of a growing market.
