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US President-elect Donald Trump has called on the BRICS countries to abandon the idea of a competing currency to the US dollar. Otherwise, the countries would be subject to 100 percent tariffs and would face having to say goodbye to selling their goods to the wonderful US economy, as how he put it. The name “Brics” is made up of the initials of the first members of the group, which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The group now also includes Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. At their summit in October held in Kazan, Russia,…
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