U.S.-Antigua online gambling impasse near end?
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The United States is planning to propose a settlement that would end a bitter trade dispute regarding online gambling between the U.S. and Antigua and Barbuda.
The settlement, which should be offered by the end of the month, could end five years of acrimony and legal wrangling on an international scale.
A story on majorwager.com had the details:
According to Mark Mendel, Antigua and Barbuda’s attorney in its World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute, the US is scheduled to put forward a proposal for the settlement of both aspects of the trade dispute by next Monday. Mendel indicated that Antigua and Barbuda is adopting a wait and see approach to the proposal.
Mendel revealed that despite the controversial U.S. $21 million in sanctions against the U.S. awarded by a WTO Dispute Settlement Body arbitrator last December, the pending proposal is expected to address aspects of the trade dispute which dealt with the United States’ failure to comply with the WTO’s ruling on access for Internet gaming operators.
Antigua has argued, successfully, that the United States was unfairly preventing online gambling operations from doing business in America. Antigua had been threatening to ignore intellectual property treaties with America as compensation for the trade breach.
