National Policies for Logistics Services in Chile and Peru: Their Impact and Challenges vis-à-vis the Asia-Pacific Region

Recently, logistics services have become one of the most important issues in international trade. The competitiveness in logistics services is essential to get real access to different countries. However, the importance of logistics these services are not negotiated in commercial agreement and not revised for many authors. Peru and Chile have actively participated during the last decades in trade issues, and are now engage in different ongoing negotiation such as WTO Doha Round, the Pacific Alliance, APEC, and TPP amongst others. Both of them depend on trade in a significant percentage of their GDP. The different strategies to enhance commerce between them and worldwide, are definitely fundamental for its development. Asia is known as a paradigm for Latin America, and especially regarding improved logistics competitiveness strategies. The first section of this paper develops a literature review regarding the different approaches of logistics services definition. The second section will present the Asian approach to this topic, focusing in APEC and ASEAN present discussion. Then we will aim to answer ¿Which are the main modifications that Peru and Chile have done and what is pending? Then through a series of short interviews with the main actors in Chile and Peru we will try to compare the approach form Asia and our countries in order to obtain policy recommendations