The United States-Japan stalemate on farm and auto markets in the ongoing Pacific trade talks is locking all of the participants in a "waiting game," Chile's head of international economic relations said Thursday.

Chile, along with nine other countries involved in talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, has been awaiting the outcome of bilateral U.S.-Japan talks, which had reached no clear result earlier Thursday.

"From a practical point of view, the rounds of talks have been in a kind of waiting game and there were no rounds in recent months because the fundamental attention in the process today is on that negotiation between Japan and the United States," said Andres Rebolledo, who has overall responsibility for Chile's trade relations. "Let's see what happens."