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According to C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,"It's Europe and India, in large part on agricultural policy, that have been naysayers that have caused the breakdown. At the end of the day, everybody's going to have to come back with better proposals to get a package on the table that will enable the negotiations to get going again."

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