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The EU Questions Online Casinos Agreement

The European Union and the United States were able to settle what were simply ongoing compensation negotiations that took months to resolve. The EU was given new trade compensation allowances to make up for the lack of access to the U.S. online casinos gambling industry. The negotiations between the two lasted months and the U.S. continually pushed the negotiation deadline further back, until an agreement was reached in December. For the EU though, the agreement was just the beginning of resolving the issue with the U.S.’s online casinos gambling industry.

The U.S. passed discriminatory legislation (the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) that restricted the right and ability of offshore and foreign online casinos gambling companies to access the U.S. internet gamblers, bettors, poker players, and more. Because the U.S. does still allow state-run internet horserace betting, the other countries claims that they should also have access to the horserace betting industry. Later, the U.S. announced that it planned to amend U.S. commitments in the GATS Treaty that the UIGEA violated.

The U.S. the EU went through arbitration to come to an agreeable conclusion to the online casinos issue – but many in the EU gambling industry assert that the problem is far from resolved. Part of the arbitration agreement between the EU and the U.S. allows the EU to reopen the case before the U.S., which is exactly what many in the internet casinos industry are predicting will happen when Antigua and Costa Rica rile suit against the U.S. once again.