*Chile’s chamber of deputies has approved the free trade agreement between the Pacific Alliance trade bloc and Singapore (Alcaps). The agreement has now been sent to the senate for final approval. Negotiations on the Alcaps began in 2017 and the agreement was signed on 26 January 2022 by the foreign ministers of the Pacific Alliance member countries – Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico – and the foreign minister of Singapore. Among other things, the agreement seeks to integrate the signatory countries’ economies, facilitate trade, promote investment, and establish good regulatory practices. In a presentation prior to its approval, Chile’s undersecretary of international economic relations, Claudia Sanhueza, stated that the Alcaps “will bring important benefits for the Alliance and Chile.” Sanhueza emphasised how the incorporation of Singapore to the agreement is a “strategic” move since it will “improve the global positioning of the Pacific Alliance and the members of the bloc” as well as strengthen ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). According to Sanhueza, the agreement is also “a commercial and logistical bridge between Latin America and Asia, and a benchmark in innovation and technology.” With the Alcaps, Chile continues building its strategic ties with Singapore, with which it shares other economic and commercial agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and with which it interacts in fora such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec).