From April 28 to 29, 2025, local time, the BRICS foreign ministers met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting issued a presidential statement explaining the BRICS countries' common positions on issues such as adhering to multilateralism, safeguarding fairness and justice, and promoting common development. The BRICS foreign ministers support an open, transparent, fair, predictable, inclusive, equal, and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system based on rules and with the WTO at its core. The foreign ministers are seriously concerned about unjust unilateral protectionist practices that violate WTO rules, including the misapplication of reciprocal tariffs. The foreign ministers warned that such measures would disrupt the global supply chain and increase global economic uncertainty, and called on all parties to take measures to safeguard free trade and the multilateral trading system, address current trade challenges, and create a favorable trade and investment environment for all parties, especially emerging market countries and developing countries.

From April 28 to 29, 2025, local time, the BRICS foreign ministers met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting issued a presidential statement explaining the BRICS countries' common positions on issues such as adhering to multilateralism, safeguarding fairness and justice, and promoting common development. The BRICS foreign ministers support an open, transparent, fair, predictable, inclusive, equal, and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system based on rules and with the WTO at its core. The foreign ministers are seriously concerned about unjust unilateral protectionist practices that violate WTO rules, including the misapplication of reciprocal tariffs. The foreign ministers warned that such measures would disrupt the global supply chain and increase global economic uncertainty, and called on all parties to take measures to safeguard free trade and the multilateral trading system, address current trade challenges, and create a favorable trade and investment environment for all parties, especially emerging market countries and developing countries.