Barriers to de-Dollarization Within BRICS
... institutions would not be in BRICS countries' favour in the near future, and hence emphasized the importance of a new Multilateral Clearing Union (MCU) which would serve as an intra-BRICS currency swap pool and tackle balance of payment shortcomings, trade finance, financial crisis aversion, and an overall restoration of sovereignty by de-dollarizing BRICS trade (NDB, 2017). This intention was also echoed in the 2017 BRICS Xiamen Summit declaration, which stated : “ We agree to …enhance currency cooperation, consistent with each central bank's legal mandate, including through currency swap, local currency ...