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Doha trade talks collapse

By Alan Beattie and Frances Williams in Geneva

Published: July 29 2008 17:33 | Last updated: July 29 2008 23:07

The Doha round of global trade talks, now in its seventh year, broke up without agreement on Tuesday after nine days of tense negotiations.

Sharp divisions between the US, India and China about access to agricultural markets in the developing world could not be bridged and the talks came to a grinding halt, scuppering efforts by Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organisation, to broker a compromise.

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