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Online Casino Repercussions Begin

The ongoing negotiations between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States have dragged on for several years now and some companies are just sick and tired of the waiting. The United States unfairly blocks offshore online casinos from accessing the US market – a move that significantly damaged the Antiguan economy and made many sites fold under. The Antiguan government sought the help and ruling of the World Trade Organization in the case and the United States was found to fault international trade agreements. The WTO awarded Antiguan trade dispensations against US copy and trade marks so the tune of roughly $21 million for the online casino gambling situation.

This decision seemed to have woken up the US Trade Representatives and the Antiguan government has been in stalled negotiations with the US for quite awhile now. The US is refusing to come to the table and lift portions of the UIGEA and its online casino gambling trade blocks and is generally not willing to give Antigua a whole lot in the negotiations. Basically, the threat of infringement on US music and entertainment copyrights has the USTR coming to the table – but just so that Antigua does not make good on the trade dispensations.

This means that the online casinos that were so negatively affected by the UIGEA and the US’s continued discrimination are still in a holding pattern. There is just no movement happening and the Antiguan government has released very few details to indicate that the negotiations are progressing well – that is quite disheartening for the online gambling industry.