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Antigua Seeks Retaliation

With a U.S. online casino, betting, and internet gambling ban still firmly in place in the United States, the small Carribean nation of Antigua is confident that the nation will win a settlement dispute – the World Trade Organisation will make a ruling in just a matter of days at this point. Antigua is one of the countries that was hi the hardest by the anti-online casinos legislation because the nation’s entire economy was essentially tied into he internet gambling industry. And beyond just the 2006 online casinos ban, the U.S. has employed discriminatory online horserace betting for many years, and Antigua has already won a WTO case against the U.S. that covered a horserace betting.

But with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in place, Antigua is preparing for a billion dollar settlement later in just days. The U.S. has postponed the WTO and even self-imposed deadlines for resolving the online casinos gambling issue, but it looks like the WTO will finally clamp down on the frequent postponements and make a firm decision regarding Antigua’s compensation claims against the U.S.

Antigua is anticipating that the WTO will grant the island nation roughly $3.44 billion a year in compensation claims to rectify for the loss of the U.S. online casino gambling industry. And beyond that, Mendel, a private attorney representing Antigua has noted that the country is seeking approval from the WTO for Antigua to disregard U.S. copyrights and make back some of the lost money from the exportation of U.S. copyrighted music, software and movies. Some speculate that the online casinos dispute will not lead to the WTO approving the request to disregard U.S. copyrights, but on the other hand, Mendel is pretty confident that Antigua presented a strong case before the WTO.