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Let \(\Omega\) be the unit ball or polydisk in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) and \(L^p_a (\Omega)\) be the Bergman space of analytic functions \(f:\Omega \to C\) such that \(\|f\|_p<\infty.\) The author gives the generalization of the result (known for the unit disk) of compactness of Toeplitz operators by \textit{S. Axler} and \textit{D. Zheng} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 47, 387-400 (1998; Zbl 0914.47029)] for the case of the unit ball in \(\mathbb{C}^n\). Namely, it is shown that if \(S\) is a finite sum of finite products of Toeplitz operators in \(L^2_a (\Omega)\) then \(S\) is compact if and only if the Berezin transform \(\widetilde{S} (z)\) of \(S\) is such that \(\widetilde{S} (z) \to 0\) as \(z \to \partial \Omega.\) Reviewer's remark: The author notes that the analogous result was also independently obtained by Yu Tao (oral communication).