When I tell people, they’ll ask, ‘What do you do?’ And we tell them we export some beans to Cuba and they’re like, ‘Well you can’t do that, can ya?’ he said.

He not only can, he has. For the past nine years, Wallesen has been filling entire container ships with 10,000 bags of beans at a time. He says the last shipment he sent to Cuba was worth $3.2 million.

Doing Business with Cuba, Despite Embargo by CNBC and read Cuba: Forbidden Fortune.