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No End in Sight

More meetings and discussions are underway in what is becoming the never ending negotiation process between the U.S. and the small island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Just last year the World Trade Organization’s arbitration panel stepped into the arguments and announced a judgment of trade sanctions for the small nations against the U.S because of the U.S. withdrawal from the international online casino gambling industry. In an effort to protect U.S. music and movie copyrights from the trade sanctions, the U.S. Trade Representatives (USTR) and the Finance and Economy Minister in Antigua, Dr Errol Cort, have engaged in lengthy negotiations over the past couple of months – and they have even passed over several extended deadlines for negotiation resolution.

When the negotiations began roughly two months ago in Washington, DC between a delegation of representatives from Antigua and the USTR, the Antiguan delegates put an expiration date on the negotiations. Well as the first deadline approached the and many hoped the debate over the U.S. online casino gambling industry was nearing an end, Dr. Cort announced an extension for the negotiations because they were proceeding in a positive direction. As that first extension came and passed, and then a second extension deadline has come and passed many online casinos and industry representatives are wondering if there is ever an end in sight for these negotiations.

The next round of negotiations is taking place in Antigua and the latest batch of USTR have already arrived and negotiations are once again underway. As the extension deadlines have come and passed, Dr. Cort and others have asserted that the negotiations are progressing and nearing an end. If a resolution is unreachable between Antigua and the U.S. over the online casino gambling issue then the case will be referred back to the WTO for continued arbitration and a hopeful resolution.