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Intra-BRICS trade is booming, driven by the expanded BRICS+ bloc (now including energy-rich nations like Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia) and a strong push for de-dollarization, boosting local currency settlements and new payment systems like CIPS. Key themes include diversifying supply chains, enhancing South-South cooperation, developing local payment systems (NDB, CIPS), and fostering tech/industrial integration to reduce reliance on Western markets, with total intra-bloc trade already exceeding US$1 trillion and growing significantly. Navigate the BRICS business framework. Find news on economic cooperation, the New Development Bank, and joint investment projects. Essential for businesses leveraging the powerful BRICS economic bloc.

Cocoa
Featured September 24, 2024

Moscow Stock Exchange Begins Trading In Cocoa Futures With African, Asian and Latin American Producers A Main Beneficiary

The Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) has begun trading in cocoa futures contracts, with trading and settlements conducted in Russian Rubles. The cocoa trade desk began operating yesterday (September 24) and reflects an international demand for the product, reflecting the dynamics of the price of cocoa beans supplied from countries in Africa, Asia, and Central and […]

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Pakistan Farmer
Featured September 21, 2024

Russia To Assist Pakistan With Agricultural Productivity & Industrial Investments

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Aleksei Gruzdev, has been visiting Islamabad and holding meetings with his counterpart, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Pakistan’s Minister for Industries, Production, and National Food Security. The two officials discussed enhancing bilateral trade, with a focus on improving agricultural outputs. As a result, Russia has agreed to supply the latest […]

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Russia Egypt
September 17, 2024

Russia – Egypt Bilateral Trade Triples To Over US$7 Billion

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and Trade and Industry Minister Anton Alikhanov met with Egypt’s Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Moscow on Monday. The meetings were to discuss the situation in Palestine, as well as trade updates and other bilateral relations. Egypt is also a member of BRICS, with the 2024 annual heads […]

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September 17, 2024

Russia Wants To Reel In China’s Growing Fish Consumer Market

Russian fish exporters need to actively develop new niche markets through marketing tools, according to German Zverev, President of the All-Russian Association of Fishermen. This will be of interest to Russian sales and marketing businesses with China market capabilities. According to Zverev, China is currently the second largest global importer of fish products after the […]

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September 16, 2024

Myanmar Wants To Join BRICS As An Observer

Myanmar would like to participate in BRICS as an observer country, its Minister for Information Maung Maung Ohn has stated: “We are poised for cooperation with the integration as an observer country, without full membership.” Russia took over the BRICS chairmanship from 1 January this year and will hold the BRICS summit with the participation […]

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S7 Dubai
September 10, 2024

S7 Airlines To Provide Moscow – Dubai Direct Flights From End of September

S7 Airlines plans to launch flights from Moscow to Dubai beginning on September 30, the company has stated. S7 will operate the flights four times per week, on Mondays to Dubai International Airport (DXB), and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays to Al Maktoum Airport (DWC). They will use narrow-body Boeing 737-800 aircraft that could accommodate […]

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Lavrov GCC
September 9, 2024

Russia – Gulf Cooperation Council Trade & Relations: Update

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial conference. He will attend a ministerial meeting of the Russia-GCC Strategic Dialogue and will have several additional bilateral meetings. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional free trade organization comprising Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and […]

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September 9, 2024

Chinese MNC To Invest US$110.5 Million into Amur Industrial Park

As we predicted would happen, Chinese investors have already begun making investments into tax incentive-driven projects in Russia. China’s Xuan Yuan, (XY Group) a Beijing-based, cross-border investment firm that specialises in international trade, including railway rolling stock and other large export of electromechanical products, public safety testing equipment, urban public security and emergency systems, urban […]

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September 8, 2024

Russia-India Joint Venture Wins US$6.5 Billion Contract To Build Electric Trains

Kinet Railway Solutions, a company formed by Transmashholding, Russia’s largest locomotive and rail equipment manufacturer, and the Indian government-owned Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), have announced that they have won a US$6.5 billion Indian government contract to manufacture 120 electric trains for Indian Railways at Kinet’s production facility in Latur, Maharashtra. The company won the […]

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September 8, 2024

Russia’s Alfa Bank To Open A Representative Office In India

Alfa Bank is to open an office in India, the Russian lender’s deputy CEO, Pavel Vysotsky as said. “We see that it is necessary to open a large network of Russian banks and representative offices in India and expand the existing presence there. Alfa Bank is no exception in this regard, and we have such […]

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