India (as Chair) will host the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa on 15-16 October 2016. The BRICS Business Council meets today and tomorrow. _____
NDTV.png Landmark BRICS Framework on Trade Likely To Be Signed On Thursday India will host BRICS trade ministers on Thursday before the BRICS summit in Goa Press Trust of India, NDTV, New Delhi, 11 October 2016 An important framework to enhance economic cooperation will be brought into force when trade ministers of BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - meet on Thursday in Goa. The session will be hosted by India's Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who will meet her counterparts from other BRICS member nations. The ministers will adopt the framework for cooperation in the fields of small and medium enterprises, services sector, intellectual property rights (IPR), trade promotion, non-tariff measures resolution and adoption of uniform standards, according to an Indian official. The participating ministers will also select a template for the BRICS - single window cooperation which will help boost trade in services. The decision to adopt a 'single window' assumes more significance as India recently proposed a trade facilitation agreement in services in the World Trade Organisation. The meeting on October 13 will be followed by the BRICS summit to be held on October 15-16 in Goa. Ms Sitharaman will hold bilateral deliberations with all trade ministers before the summit. The BRICS has emerged as one of the most significant trading bloc in recent years. Its members host 42 per cent of the world's population, and have a combined Gross Domestic Product of over 16 trillion dollars. Trade within the bloc grew to 297 billion dollars in 2014, from 280 billion dollars in 2012. In a first, to promote intra-BRICS trade, India has organized a trade fair on the same day as the summit. It will provide member nations an opportunity to showcase state-of-the-art technologies and advances in industrial design and development. Leaders from BIMSTEC countries (Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal) have also been invited for meeting and discussion with BRICS business leaders during the fair. From: http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/landmark-brics-framework-on-trade-likely-to-b e-signed-on-thursday-1472958 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14265 (20161012) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002401d22445%245cb7d2e0%24162778a0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
