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The Brazil-U.S. Business Council provides member companies with customized, high-level services, including exclusive access to meetings and events, members-only newsletters and publications, and council advocacy for your company’s issues and priorities. These include:

Advancing Member Priorities

  • Trade and Investment: Work to advance trade and investment openness through bilateral tax and investment treaties, trade preference programs, urging the conclusion of the Doha Round and other initiatives.
  • Trade Facilitation: Promote the adoption of trade facilitation measures that will enhance regional and national competitiveness to make the flow of international commerce faster, more efficient and to reduce trade transaction costs.
  • Innovation: Foster innovation, harness creativity, and champion intellectual property (IP) as vital to creating jobs, saving lives, advancing economic growth, and generating breakthrough solutions to challenges in the United States and Brazil.
  • Energy: Encourage increased cooperation and reduced barriers to trade, promote private sector investment, and support the expansion of the U.S.-Brazil Biofuels Partnership.
  • Government Dialogue: Continue outreach to the U.S. and Brazilian governments to promote consensus building on major issues in the bilateral trade and investment relationship, advance business priorities, and provide networking opportunities.

Publications & Information Services

  • Brazil Bulletin: A weekly publication containing interviews with business and government insiders, as well as an analysis of political and economic events.
  • Policy Monitor: A customized monthly report on the status of your company's legislative and regulatory priorities in Brazil.
  • Networking: Forum Brasil is the premier event series focused on Brazil-U.S. business policy issues, fostering in-depth discussions of developments in the growing bilateral commercial and economic relationship, featuring prominent speakers from the Brazilian and U.S. governments, and providing members with opportunities to network with government officials and potential business partners.

Key Events and Activities

  • Plenary Meeting: The annual Plenary convenes over 200 top executives from the largest U.S. investors in Brazil, Brazil's leading companies, and top decision makers from Brasília and Washington to discuss private sector priorities for the bilateral and hemispheric trade and investment agenda.
  • Brazil Mission: An annual policy advocacy trip to Brasília that brings together high-level executives from U.S. Section member companies and the leadership of the council's Brazil Section to advance business priorities with senior government officials.
  • The Strategic Planning Meeting: This meeting serves as an important opportunity for members to provide valuable input into the council's proposed initiatives for the coming year and ensure that member company priorities are incorporated into our annual program of work.
  • Task Forces: Member-driven policy groups-focusing on issues important to the bilateral relationship including tax, trade and investment, innovation, and energy-that work with their Brazilian private sector counter-parts to formulate policy recommendations for both governments.

Membership Levels

Board-Level Membership

  • Prominent leadership role in defining the U.S.-Brazil commercial agenda.
  • High-level engagement with senior management of U.S. and Brazilian companies.
  • Priority access to visiting officials and honored guests of Forum Brasil events, with private meetings as available.
  • Special recognition and priority seating at council events and initiatives.
  • Eligible for senior leadership positions.
  • Option of leading task forces to define specific policy initiatives.
  • All membership benefits available to corporate members.


Corporate Membership

  • Access to members-only programs, including annual events, briefings with U.S. and Brazilian government officials, and executive delegation visits to Brazil.
  • Advancement of member priorities through advocacy in the areas of trade and investment, trade facilitation, energy and the environment, defense and security, innovation, and government dialogue.
  • Executive business intelligence services, including a weekly policy newsletter (Brazil Bulletin) and a monthly report (Policy Monitor) on legislative and regulatory priorities in Brazil.
  • Support from council staff on company-specific issues.
  • Members-only online resources.

Become a Member

If you are interested in membership, please contact Katayoun Shahrokhi at kshahrokhi@uschamber.com or (202) 463-5843.