Bill Clinton: “Because we couldn't agree on what constituted evidence of market openings, and there are other reasons as well, but at…”

“Because we couldn't agree on what constituted evidence of market openings, and there are other reasons as well, but at least that is one. Prime Minister Hosokawa. In the way we look at it, in the areas of government procurement, insurance business, and so on, in these areas we believe that to a large measure we've been able to boil down the issues. However, unfortunately, at the very end we were not able to clear the hurdle of numerical targets, and we regret that very much. As the President mentioned earlier, in the days ahead, we on each side will try and sort out some problems that remain and do our best efforts in order to resolve the remaining problems and arrive at a good agreement.”