By Lily Zhou President Donald Trump on July 8 reiterated a previous warning to nations in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) that he would be imposing an additional 10 percent tariff on them, saying the bloc was created to replace the U.S. dollar as the dominant currency for international trade. Speaking to […]
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BRICS is an intergovernmental organization consisting of ten countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. It is considered to be a counterpart and alternative to the G7 bloc of the world’s largest economies and combined represent nearly half of the world’s population.