What our Cuba company report includes
Our Cuba reports draw on sources including the Registro Mercantil (commercial register, Ministry of Justice), the Cámara de Comercio de la República de Cuba for the registry of foreign-company branches and representations and the importer/exporter registry, the National Office of Statistics (ONEI), and accessible state-enterprise records; fees may apply for certain records. Depth of any given section reflects what the subject company has filed and what is publicly retrievable at the time of the search.
Cuba's principal commercial register is the Registro Mercantil, administered by the Ministry of Justice (MINJUS) under the Commercial Code and Decreto-Ley 226/2001; the Cámara de Comercio de la República de Cuba separately maintains the National Registry of Branches and Agents of Foreign Mercantile Companies and the Register of Importers and Exporters, registering foreign commercial representations rather than domestic companies, while newly created entities also obtain a registration code from the National Statistics Office (ONEI).
Identity & registration
- ✓ Registry identifier (where available)
- ✓ Registered company name (Spanish)
- ✓ Legal form (Empresa Estatal, Sociedad Mercantil, JV, MIPYME)
- ✓ Date of constitution and registered office
- ✓ Ministry / OSDE supervisory body (case-specific)
People & ownership
- ✓ General director and authorised signatories
- ✓ State ownership and supervisory structure
- ✓ Joint-venture partner identification (case-specific)
- ✓ Connections to military-controlled GAESA conglomerate (case-specific)
Financial & trading
- ✓ Available financial information in CUP
- ✓ Authorised business activities
- ✓ Operating sector and ministry
- ✓ Risk indicator (with major sanctions caveats)
Risk & public records
- ✓ Cuba Restricted List screening (case-specific)
- ✓ GAESA-linked entity identification (case-specific)
Note on Cuban data: Cuba is subject to the long-standing US embargo administered through the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR). The Cuba Restricted List identifies entities tied to the Cuban military, intelligence and security services with which transactions by US persons are prohibited.
Why verify a Cuban company?
Cuba's commercial environment is structured around state enterprises supervised by sectoral ministries and the OSDE state-holding system, with a smaller MIPYME private sector emerging since 2021. For any US-linked counterparty, the sanctions environment is dominant context, and the CACR, the SDN list and the Cuba Restricted List together cover a substantial part of the Cuban formal economy, particularly GAESA-affiliated entities.