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.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro. They both reaffirmed the need for prompt reform of the WTO based on inclusiveness, non-discrimination, transparency and mutual respect, and exchanged views on several aspects of […]
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, gave a speech at the main Plenary session of the BRICS 2025 annual Heads of State summit currently being held in Rio de Janeiro. In it, he discussed the BRICS growth, economic data, global payment systems and several potential new initiatives including the creation of a BRICS carbon trade mechanism, […]
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has been representing Russia at the BRICS 2025 Heads of State annual meetings in Rio de Janeiro. He spoke at a session themed “Strengthening the Multilateral World Order, Financial and Economic issues, & Artificial Intelligence.” Lavrov’s comments mainly focused on the current state of the global economy, the need […]
The BRICS group is to announce a new BRICS Multilateral Guarantee Fund, backed by its New Development Bank (NDB) to lower project financing costs and boost investment. The initiative, apparently modeled on the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), aims to address global investment shifts amid uncertainty surrounding U.S. economic policy, according to sources via Reuters. Brazilian officials […]
The BRICS countries are demonstrating a growing interest in Russian energy resources, including oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal, with demand for oil exceeding available volumes, most of which have already been contracted, according to Roman Marshavin, Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister. He stated that “BRICS partners are already openly declaring their interest in Russian energy […]
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Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente will take part in the BRICS Summit in Brazil as an observer, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday (July 2). “I was not going to take part [in the summit] and I cannot travel so often, there is a lot of work in the country. The […]
Two more Russian companies have obtained the rights to export fish and fish products to Brazil. Russia’s agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said that the rights were granted to Kamchattralflot LLC and Sadko LLC of Murmansk by decision of the Secretariat of Agricultural Protection of Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. Rosselkhoznadzor will guarantee the delivery of […]
Russia and Turkiye plan to strengthen bilateral cooperation in agriculture with the aim of increasing and diversifying Russian-Turkish trade in agricultural products, according to a protocol from the Russian-Turkish intergovernmental commission meeting held last Friday (June 27). The meeting assessed the work of the executive committee on bilateral agriculture. Sunflower oil, wheat bran, sunflower meal, […]
Colombia has confirmed it has joined the New Development Bank (NDB), the financial investment arm of the BRICS group. Colombia had requested membership in the NDB in May of this year, amid tensions with the United States over President Trump’s tariff war and Colombia’s joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Colombia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laura Sarabia, said, […]
Russia’s TMH Energy Solutions, or TMH ES, part of Transmashholding, will supply a batch of diesel generators to the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, currently under construction in Egypt, according to CEO Andrei Vasiliev. He said that “diesel generating backup is an important part of ensuring any nuclear power plant can be used safely, and El Dabaa is no exception. We […]
The Russian State Duma has ratified an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to avoid double taxation of income and capital and prevent tax evasion. The government introduced the bill, No. 930586-8, on May 29. This new agreement replaces an earlier 2011 agreement which applied only to the income of state-owned investment funds. An explanatory […]
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