Piyush Goyal to participate in 9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet in Brasilia

Piyush Goyal to participate in 9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet in Brasilia

Piyush Goyal to participate in 9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet in Brasilia

9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet in Brasilia: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will attend 9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet in Brasilia, Brazil, on the 11th of November 2019.

Aims:

The 9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet will be focus on opportunities for enhanced intra-BRICS trade and investment cooperation. Issues like cooperation in e-commerce, investment facilitation, MSMEs, Intellectual Property Right, will be discussed during the meet. Deliberations on the current global economic and trade environment, challenges facing the multilateral trading system, ways of advancing the BRICS trade and investment cooperation will also take place.

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Another important outcome of the Ministerial meeting under the current Brazilian Presidency is the signing of an MoU among Trade and Investment Promotion Agencies of BRICS countries, which will help foster close collaboration between the trade and investment promotion agencies of BRICS nations for promoting intra BRICS trade and investment.

Minister Piyush Goyal, will be on tour to Brazil and the United States from 9th – 14th November 2019:

Commerce and Industry and Railway Minister, Piyush Goyal, will be on tour to Brazil and the United States from 9th – 14th November 2019. On the first leg of his visit the Commerce and Industry Minister will attend the 9th BRICS Trade Ministers Meet in Brasilia, Brazil, on the 11th of November 2019.