The article considers Brazil as one of the most important factors in the development of the world economy in the era of systemic transformation of international political and economic relations, aggravation of relations between the Western and the rest of the world. The authors pay great attention to such an international unification as BRICS, which Brazil is a member of as one of the creators, as the largest country in South America, and in the past a colony of Portugal. The authors associate the formation of the stronghold with this unification anti-American, anti-Western forces determined to free themselves from the dictates of the United States and its allies. Brazil’s economic ties with Western and non-Western countries, opportunities for development by strengthening ties with non-Western countries are briefly shown. There is a great dependence of the development of the Brazilian economy on the world economic situation, on the prices of oil and other import and export goods. Brazil’s accession to BRICS is an important factor in the country’s development in the new international environment, an example for other countries in South America and Latin America. The article notes a significant increase in foreign trade relations with China and other BRICS countries. Methods of economic, statistical, graphic, and comparative analysis are used.

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