Brazil-BRICS Trade: A Visual Breakdown

By Elizabeth Gonzalez

On July 15, several of the world’s most powerful emerging market leaders will meet in Brazil. Heads of state from the five BRICS countries—Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa—will convene for the group’s sixth summit.The meeting marks the first official visit to Brazil by both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The trade bloc, which first began heads-of-state summits in 2009, brings together a group of markets that the World Bank estimates will account for the majority of global growth by 2025. Ahead of the meeting, AS/COA Online zeroes in on the Latin American country’s trade relationship within the bloc.

China dominates trade relations among the BRICS, according to Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade. In 2013, the value of China-Brazil trade was more than nine times larger than Brazilian trade with India—the Latin American country’s second largest partner within the group.

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