The role of intra-regional trade in the Pacific Alliance's integration into Asia-Pacific

• Autores: Mazuelos Carpio, André Alejandro, Yangali Vargas, Juan Junior
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad del Pacífico
• Repositorio: UP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.up.edu.pe:11354/3765
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/11354/3765; https://doi.org/10.21678/jb.2022.2028
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Alianza del Pacífico (Organización : América Latina); América Latina--Relaciones comerciales--Asia; Asia--Relaciones comerciales--América Latina; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.02.04

One of the objectives of the Pacific Alliance is trade integration orientated towards Asia-Pacific; However, the integration of the bloc’s members into that region’s markets is circumscribed by their low levels of intra-regional trade and their limited export diversification. On this basis, this research seeks to explain the extent to which the intra-regional trade of the Pacific Alliance affects its inclusion in the Asia-Pacific markets. The methodology research is explanatory. Indicators ofeconomic interdependence are analyzed to observe the degree of intra-regional trade within the alliance and in other Asia-Pacific regions, as well the technological content of each member’s export basket. The results show that while the Pacific Alliance’s trade has an extra-regional bias and its exports are tending towards reprimarization, this has not been an impediment to the objective of inclusion in international markets with an orientation towards Asia-Pacific as the bloc’s trade bias towards that region has increased.