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AMD lifts embargo on the Radeon R9 Fury Xs performance, shows GPU competing neck and neck with Nvidias GTX 980 Ti
2015-06-18 22:52:39| Extremetech
AMD has lifted the embargo on its own benchmark results -- does the Radeon R9 Fury X have what it takes to challenge the GTX 980 Ti? The company says yes.
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Cuban rum could soon hit US shores after more than a half-century of embargo
2015-05-20 10:00:43| Beverages - Topix.net
French liquor behemoth Pernod Ricard could soon be the first to sell Cuban -made rum in the US after more than a half-century of being banned from doing so due to the trade embargo. With relations improving between the US and Cuba, Pernod's spiced Caribbean libation could soon come to US liquor stores and bars, and possibly challenge Bacardi International, which actually was founded in Cuba.
Russia might ease food import from three EU states after embargo lift
2015-05-20 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Russia might permit around 20 companies from Hungary, Cyprus and Greece to restart food imports after it lifts its year-long embargo on food products from European Union.
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Former USDA secretaries support ending the Cuba embargo
2015-04-13 19:01:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. A bipartisan group of former secretaries of agriculture have written the House and Senate Agriculture Committees leadership urging that the constraints on financing exports to Cuba be eliminated and the Cuban embargo be lifted. read more
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Cargill's Vorwerk makes case for ending Cuba embargo
2015-03-22 01:05:57| Food - Topix.net
A trade mission with 95 agriculture leaders from 12 states visited Cuba earlier this month. Many were members of the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba, formed early this year and chaired by Devry Boughner Vorwerk, vice president of corporate affairs for Minnetonka -based Cargill Inc. The group spent a full day with Cuban import, trade and investment officials in Havana, Vorwerk said.