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Antigua Ponders Rationale

The Antiguan government was surprised by the World Trade Organisation’s decision to only award the island nation $21 million of the country’s $3.4 billion claims. The Antiguan government fells that the country presented a strong case before the WTO arbitration committee, but that was not enough to secure the country a larger annual amount in trade sanctions. The WTO chose to only look at the economic loss regarding a certain area of the online casinos gambling industry rather than considering the whole of the revenue that was lost.

Antigua has filed complaints against the U.S. since 2003, and though the WTO has previously ruled in favor of the small island nation, the panel chose to limit the compensation to the loss of revenue associated not with the online casinos, but rather the online horseracing industry. There is speculation on many sides of the issue as to why the panel chose to limit the scope of the compensation in light of the WTO’s previous rulings that that the U.S. was violating WTO rules because of the online casino gambling ban, in addition to limitations in the horseracing industry.

The head of Antigua’s legal counsel, Mark Mendel, noted that he can suppose no real reason or rational for the panel’s decision to only include horseracing. He remarks, “They basically reversed themselves. Why they did that, I don't know and probably never will.” But Mendel did note though that Antigua believes that the U.S. is essentially being allowed to create a monopoly where the online casino horse racing industry is concerned.