Senate Approps Riders Could Foster U.S. Agriculture Exports To Cuba

The Senate Appropriations Committee late last month approved amendments to a government funding bill that could potentially make it easier for U.S. agricultural exporters to ship to Cuba by dismantling key remaining parts of the U.S. embargo against the island. But the future of the amendments and the funding bill itself remains uncertain. An amendment offered by Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) would lift the existing "cash-in-advance" payment requirement for U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba. Despite the Obama administration's easing of...