The Pacific Alliance pact has raised hopes of a boom in intra-regional trade, but the high degree of overlap between the export baskets of the member nations makes that unlikely. Nonetheless, the pursuit of market-friendly reforms by the Pacific Alliance countries is indicative of a commitment to liberalising policies that should ensure that the bloc outperforms the increasingly inward-looking members of Mercosur as the commodities boom ends.
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