ECUADOR IN THE PACIFIC ALLIANCE: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND PROSPECTS FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Latin America and the Caribbean have made efforts to generate integration agreements to achieve different objectives. The Pacific Alliance emerges as a regional block, with a tendency to generate greater competitiveness for its members at the international level, currently it is made up of four countries: Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Given this commitment to economic, political and commercial growth of the alliance, Ecuador seeks to be a member state to be able to cover new markets and have greater export outlets, as well as generate greater commercial relations with Asian countries.