Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China

What Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China does

Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China (CCIBC), also styled Câmara Brasil-China, is an independent non-profit chamber of commerce founded in 1986 in São Paulo, Brazil, at the request of former Chinese Vice-Prime Minister Wu Xueqian. It functions as an institutional bridge facilitating commercial and industrial relations between Brazil and China, serving Brazilian companies and entrepreneurs seeking to establish or expand commercial relationships with Chinese counterparts, as well as Chinese firms approaching the Brazilian market. CCIBC operates from its headquarters in São Paulo and a general office in Rio de Janeiro, with approximately 60 employees.

CCIBC's core offerings are organized around four pillars: a membership program providing institutional benefits and bilateral trade facilitation; business events and trade fairs, including an active business mission to the CISCE exhibition in Beijing and involvement in the Beijing Green Development Forum; news and media content, including video interviews and press coverage featuring President Charles A. Tang on outlets such as BandNews TV and JBFM; and a "Success Cases" catalog documenting bilateral business partnerships. It does not offer a technology product, software platform, or proprietary digital tooling. Distribution is event-driven and partnership-anchored, including alliances with Apex Brasil, TradeChina, Made-in-China.com, and the state governments of Pará, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Pernambuco.

The organization's revenue model is membership-fee-based, classified as subscription/recurring, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Go-to-market is largely field- and event-driven through trade missions, fairs, and bilateral meetings, complemented by digital channels (website, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram) for top-of-funnel awareness. CCIBC is privately held with no parent company, subsidiaries, or funding rounds disclosed, and reports no institutional investors.

Name

Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China

Legal name

Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China

Website

https://camarabrasilchina.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China (CCIBC) is an independent non-profit chamber of commerce founded in 1986 that facilitates bilateral trade and investment between Brazilian and Chinese businesses through membership services, trade missions, fairs, and institutional partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: The chamber generates revenue through annual membership fees from associate companies seeking bilateral trade facilitation between Brazil and China.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China (CCIBC) is a non-profit chamber of commerce founded in 1986 that operates as an institutional bridge between Brazil and China. It offers membership-based association services, organizes business missions and trade fairs (including the CISCE exhibition in Beijing), publishes trade-related news and media content, and showcases successful bilateral business partnerships.

Product overview

Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China (CCIBC) is a non-profit chamber of commerce founded in 1986 in São Paulo. It functions as an institutional bridge facilitating commercial and trade relations between Brazil and China. The organization offers membership programs for businesses, organizes trade events and missions (including participation in the CISCE exhibition in Beijing and the Beijing Green Development Forum), publishes news and media content, and showcases success cases of Brazil-China business partnerships. The CCIBC does not offer a technology product but rather provides service-based offerings centered on trade facilitation, networking, and institutional support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Apex Brasil (Agência Brasileira de Promoção de Exportações e Investimentos)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerOfficial promotional partner. Apex Brasil is Brazil's trade and investment promotion agency that supports Brazilian companies in their internationalization efforts. The chamber collaborates with Apex Brasil for promotional activities and trade facilitation.
• TradeChinaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerChinese trade platform partner that helps facilitate commercial connections between Brazilian businesses and Chinese suppliers/buyers.
• Governo do Pará (PA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState government partnership for promoting trade relations and business opportunities between Pará and China.
• Governo do Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState government partnership for trade promotion and business development activities with China.
• Governo de Pernambuco (PE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState government partnership for promoting commercial relations between Pernambuco and China.
• Made-in-China.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerChinese B2B marketplace platform partner facilitating trade connections and business matching between Brazilian and Chinese companies.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT): China's official national trade-promotion body that organizes trade fairs, business missions, and bilateral exchanges — including with Brazil. Larger and government-backed, but operating in the same trade-facilitation category that CCIBC serves from the Brazilian side.
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC): The world's largest business association with national committees in many countries including Brazil. Operates as a global umbrella for bilateral chambers like CCIBC and provides overlapping trade-policy advocacy and business-arbitration services.
• Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC): Asia's leading trade-promotion body organizing trade fairs, business missions, and matching services globally. Comparable as a semi-public trade-promotion intermediary with event and matchmaking offerings analogous to CCIBC's CISCE missions.
• Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI): Brazil's main industry federation representing sectoral chambers and driving internationalization policy. Comparable as a national-level industry association with international trade engagement, though much broader in scope than CCIBC.

Direct peers

• Conselho Empresarial Brasil-China (CEBC): The principal competing Brazil-China bilateral business council, also focused on promoting trade, investment, and policy dialogue between the two countries. Directly comparable in mission, target audience, and non-profit structure to CCIBC.
• Câmara Americana de Comércio para o Brasil (AmCham Brasil): Long-established bilateral chamber of commerce in Brazil facilitating US-Brazil business ties. Closely analogous in operating model (membership-based, non-profit, events, missions, advocacy) with CCIBC's Brazil-China remit.
• Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry (in China): Mirror-image bilateral chamber headquartered in China to promote China-Brazil trade from the Chinese side. The closest functional peer given shared mandate, structure, and member base targeting bilateral Brazil-China commerce.

Others

• ApexBrasil: Brazil's federal trade and investment promotion agency. Listed as CCIBC's official promotional partner, but also a potential competitor/displacer for trade-promotion mandates given its public funding and policy alignment.

Emerging players

• Made-in-China.com: A B2B marketplace platform and listed CCIBC GTM partner that facilitates supplier-buyer matching between Chinese and Brazilian firms. Adjacent peer given overlapping trade-matching function, though operating via a digital platform rather than an association model.

Regional players

• Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo (FIESP): São Paulo's industry federation and a regional peer given CCIBC's São Paulo HQ. FIESP runs its own international trade programs and China-focused initiatives that overlap with CCIBC's mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/camarabrasilcn
• Facebookfacebook.com/facedaccibc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/camarabrasilchina
• Instagraminstagram.com/camarabrasilchina

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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