I want to move to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, because four of the five countries involved right now are already members engaged in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Both talks are explicitly aimed at creating a Pacific-based trade bloc. Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Chile are already at the negotiating table, presumably discussing the very things that would be the subject of the Pacific Alliance. Is that not an inefficient duplication of resources?
On March 18th, 2013. See this statement in context.