India, Brazil discuss expansion of Preferential Trade Agreement

08 Oct 2025 Evaluate

India and Brazil have extensively discussed matters related to bilateral trade and outlined a roadmap for taking it forward. The discussions included the review of bilateral trade and investment relations, expansion of India-MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), market access issues, visa issues, promotion of industries and internal trade, multilateral issues and other matters of mutual interest. Further, they discussed on collaborations in sectors like pharmaceuticals and healthcare, chemicals and Petro-chemicals, MSME, banking and finance.

The discussions were taken place at 7th meeting of India-Brazil Trade Monitoring Mechanism which was held in New Delhi on October 7, 2025. Rajesh Agrawal, Commerce Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Tatiana Lacerda Prazeres, Secretary of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services for the Federative Republic of Brazil co-chaired the meeting. The institutional mechanism underscores the commitment between the two countries to foster economic growth.

Earlier in July 2025, the both nations had set a target to increase bilateral trade to $20 billion over the next five years. Brazil is the largest trading partner of India in the Latin American and Caribbean region. In FY 2024-25, the bilateral merchandise trade between both countries stood at $12.19 billion.

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