Mumbai, Sept. 5 -- Brazil Consul General Jose Mauro da Fonseca Costa Couto on Saturday said that bilateral trade between India and Brazil has grown tenfold over the past 20 years, from USD 1.5 billion in 2004 to over USD 15 billion at present.

Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the Global Impact Forum: Edition II-Civilisation Legacy in Mumbai, Couto highlighted the growth in trade between India and Brazil.

He said, "I'll tell you one thing, in very tangibly, in 2004, when I first came to India, bilateral trade, two-way trade, was USD 1.5 billion. Nowadays, two-way trade is over USD 15 billion. So we've grown tenfold in 20 years."

"So congratulations to India and to Brazil for moving so fast, so rapidly, into bringing people together f...