About the BRICS Trade Council

The council was formed during India’s BRICS presidency to give companies a working channel into the trade conversation between member states.

It operates as a trade body under the wider institutional umbrella of the United Diplomatic Council, carrying that relationship into its programs, conferences and member services across BRICS nations, dialogue partners and regular members. This page sets out how the council was established, where it is registered, and the role it holds in BRICS trade.

September 10 · FIEO, New Delhi · BRICS trade conference convened with member and partner-nation delegations

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Established Under India’s BRICS Presidency

The BRICS Trade Council was constituted to give member-nation and dialogue-partner enterprises a standing channel for commercial dialogue.

The council was formed during India’s presidency of the BRICS grouping, at a moment when member economies were formalising business-to-business engagement alongside inter-governmental cooperation. Its remit was drawn deliberately wide: to receive enquiries from companies across the member nations, to introduce them to counterparts in partner markets, and to keep a working record of the trade interests it is asked to serve.

The council is registered in India, with its secretariat at IETO, 3 Priyank Villas, IAF Post, Bangalore 560063, and is also registered in the State of Florida, United States of America. This dual registration allows the council to convene programmes and conferences in more than one jurisdiction while maintaining a single secretariat of record.

In its governance, the council operates in affiliation with the United Diplomatic Council, whose framework informs the council’s protocol for delegations, conference hosting and the recognition of participating chambers and trade bodies. Enquiries on standing, affiliation or documentation are handled directly by the secretariat.

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A Bridge Built For Commercial Dialogue

The BRICS Trade Council was formed around a single working conviction: that trade between the member nations grows fastest when the people who actually sign contracts are in the same room.

Diplomacy sets the framework for commerce between BRICS nations, but it does not by itself introduce a manufacturer in one member state to a distributor in another. That work of introduction — patient, specific and often unglamorous — is the council’s mandate. We exist in the space between the communiqué and the purchase order, translating the intent of intergovernmental cooperation into commercial relationships that companies can act on.

From its founding, the council has treated the BRICS grouping as a living commercial geography rather than an acronym. Its work extends across the regular member nations and outward to the dialogue partners and partner countries that increasingly shape the bloc’s trade flows. A council programme in one capital is designed so that a delegate from another can use it: the same standards of introduction, the same expectation that conversations continue after the hall empties.

That breadth is possible because of the council’s institutional positioning. Operating under the stewardship of the United Diplomatic Council, and registered across jurisdictions in India and in Florida, USA, the council can convene business delegations, chambers and official guests within a recognised framework — an advantage no single national chamber can offer on its own. Companies that engage with us are not entering an informal network; they are joining a structured council with standing.

The role we have chosen is deliberately unfashionable. We do not promise shortcuts through customs regimes or guaranteed contracts. We convene, we introduce, we host the conferences and programmes where a first meeting becomes a second one, and we keep the record of who is doing what across the bloc so that the next delegation starts further along than the last. Over successive gatherings across BRICS nations and partner countries, that accumulated familiarity has become the council’s real asset.

See how the council’s trade initiatives put this into practice

Council sessions bring member-nation and dialogue-partner delegations to the same table, where commercial introductions are made directly rather than through intermediaries.

The FIEO Conference In New Delhi

Held on 10 September 2026 at the Federation of Indian Export Organisations, the gathering brought exporters, chambers and delegation representatives from BRICS member and partner nations into one room. It stands as the clearest demonstration of what the BRICS Trade Council was constituted to do: convene, brief and connect businesses across borders.

Date

10 September 2026

Venue

Federation of Indian Export Organisations, New Delhi

Participation

Exporters, trade bodies and delegation representatives from BRICS member nations and dialogue partners

See The Conference Record