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This paper illustrates that although many countries must share responsibility for the negotiating stalemate in the Doha Round of trade negotiations, the proximate cause of the talks’ collapse in 2006 was the US' refusal to offer additional reductions in agricultural subsidies. The author urges that overcoming the impasse is crucial for developing countries, as failure would deny them opportunities for job creation and economic growth. According to the author, saving Doha requires additional concessions from US negotiators and also that other WTO countries agree to further open their markets to imports of agricultural and manufactured goods and services.