Ministry of Interior Trade

Minister: Bárbara Castillo Cuesta.
Graduate in Political Sciences and in Management of the Economy.

Address: Habana No. 258, La Habana Vieja, La Habana

The Ministry of the Interior Trade is the organism in charge of directing, to execute and to control the application of the politics of the State and the Government as for the interior wholesaler trade and retailer trade of foods and other goods, and of the services of personal and commercial consumption.

The Internal Trade has for objective the circulation, storage and the exchange of goods and services in the national territory. This trade has as purpose to link the production and import to the consumption. It is the intermediate step between the production and import and the consumption and it is carried out in two ways: Wholesaler Trade and Retailer Trade, being considered this last one, the benefit of the gastronomic and commercial services.

For the realization of these state functions, the Ministry of the Interior Trade has in the whole country a wide net of:

Storehouses of Wholesaler Trade for the purchase, storage and sale of goods, of national products and of import, going to the entities that exercise the Retailer Trade and the Gastronomy; of inputs, dedicated to a production process and services to juridical people, authorized by the Ministry of the Interior Trade, and of goods to juridical people, when these are the final consumers.

Inside the Wholesaler Trade, the Ministry of the Interior Trade has the Corporate Group EMSUNA whose fundamental activity is to direct, to coordinate and to control the commercialization in foreign currencies of consumption goods and intermissions that national and territorial supplying and selling companies of products that circulate, such as: foods, products of hygiene and cleaning, garments, fabrics, silk products, trousseaus, footwear,saddlery products, hardware store articles, electric appliances, toys, perfumery, tires, cameras, paintings, glassware, laboratory products, ferrous and not ferrous metals, industrial equipments, wood, plywood, “formica" and construction materials, among others.

Stores of Retailer Trade, for the sale of goods, of national products or of import, going to the population, for their use and consumption.

Units of Gastronomy, for the benefit of the gastronomic services that are offered in commercial establishments dedicated to these ends, constituted by restaurants, cafeterias, night centers and bars, among others that integrate a net open to which you can attend freely, and units for the benefit of the services of social feeding that offer in dining rooms and snack-bars, school lunchrooms and of other entities and institutions that conform a closed net, to which their specific members can only attend. In the same way they integrate the Gastronomy and the services that are given on board of ships, airships, railroads and bus.

Units of Commercial Services, dedicated to the satisfaction of necessities of social character, singular or collective, those that give domestic, personal and technician-productive services dedicated to satisfy the population's necessities, of organisms and state entities, of the cooperative or private sector, international economic associations, mixed companies or other forms of mercantile societies.