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Online Casino Issue Goes to Congress

The European Union is growing impatient with the United States’ constant stalling in terms of coming to a compensation agreement. The U.S. has agreed to actively pursue resolving the aftermath of the U.S. offshore online casino gambling ban – which means negotiating trade concessions as compensation for lost internet gambling profits. But despite attendance at WTO hearings and discussions in Brussels, the U.S. and the EU have yet to compromise. The EU may just have to take the online casinos issue a step higher than the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) office if the EU has hopes of a resolution in the near future. Some groups involved in the issue are even suggesting that the EU take the fight directly to the U.S. Congress.

Online casinos are the hot topic in the international arena because negotiations have frequently stalled over the past several months and the U.S. was granted a nearly six week resolution deadline extension. When the global online casino industry found out about the extension, media outlets began to report a growing unease and a shift in focus on eliminating the online casinos issue altogether rather than working out large-scale compensation claims.

Specifically, a Senior Policy Advisor with Alston & Bird, Naotaka Matuskata, commented on the EU’s current options. He notes, "The EU should explore the legislative options available at this moment, largely because the USTR office is so dug in." Because of the problems coming to compensation resolution the EU should turn to the United States Congress in an effort to either end or neutralize the online casino gambling ban.