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And the U.S. Just Persists

Is it just me, or is the United States Department of Justice boarding on the ridiculous with the international online casino situation. Though the U.S.’s ban on internet gambling has been shown against trade policies by the World Trade Organisation, and many other countries are threatening the U.S. with copyright and trade retaliation, the U.S. insists that it has the right to alter a previous treaty to exclude online casino gambling. Well, the other countries that were affected by the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act are beginning to approach the WTO with requests to retaliate against the U.S. since it will not comply with WTO rulings.

And though out all of the debate surrounding the online casinos, the U.S. insists that it has the right to alter the 1994 GATS Treaty that encompassed international trade rights. And the whopper is that once the U.S. revises the agreement, it has stated that it will no longer be obligated to the other countries to provide compensation. The decision to rewrite the U.S.’s portion of the treaty was an unprecedented request, and the WTO did not agree with the U.S. policy makers that by revising the treaty the U.S. is no longer responsible for the fallout of the online casino gambling ban.

Soon after the United States announced that it had no plans to comply with the WTO’s ruling and lift the ban on online casinos the Antiguan government announced plans to disregard U.S. patents and copyrights in retaliation. And now that the U.S. continues to insist it is in the right, Antigua has approached the WTO with a request to authorize US $3.4 billion in commercial sanctions against the U.S.

The European Union has also announced plans to affect U.S. trade on products like cotton, autoparts, and more should the U.S. continue to ban offshore online casinos access to U.S. players and also refuse to compensate countries negatively affected by the ban. Should both counties succeed in gaining WTO approval for the retaliation the U.S. could encounter a crisis situation.