India, Brazil and South Africa, which constitute the tri-lateral organisation IBSA, are hoping to increase the trade relations among the three countries to $10-billion a year, South Africa's head of Asia and Middle East Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Jerry Matjila has said.
Matjila was speaking on Wednesday ahead of the second IBSA head of states summit in South Africa on October 17.
The summit would be attended by Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and host President Thabo Mbeki.
Matjila said since the formation of IBSA in 2003, trade between the three countries had increased to between $6 and $7 billion.
He did not give a time frame as to when the three countries would be able to achieve trilateral trade volume worth $10
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