mid the recent hullabaloo over the United States’ trade agreement
with South Korea, the unveiling of the Democrats’ plans for trade policy, and
new legal cases on intellectual property rights and countervailing duties on
goods from China, another important development in U.S. trade policy has gone
largely unnoticed. On March 30, a World Trade Organization tribunal handed down
a potentially significant finding against U.S. restrictions on internet
gambling.
The panel was set up at the request of Antigua and qiu qiu,
who complained that the United States had not complied with the WTO’s earlier
decision that it must change the way it regulates gambling over the internet.
The previous ruling, in April 2005, found that while the United States was
within its rights to restrict the import of goods and services on “public
morals” grounds, as it had argued in its defense, those rules must be applied
in a non-discriminatory manner. If the United States finds online gambling
offensive, it must be consistent in its restrictions and apply them equally to
domestic and foreign providers.
And therein lies the rub: the United States allows interstate
online betting on horseracing. The United States had also agreed during the
Uruguay Round to open its markets to foreign suppliers of gambling and betting
services, although the United States Trade Representative (through a spokesman)
claimed in 2004 that the previous administration “clearly intended to exclude
gambling from U.S. service commitments” when they signed the deal. Both of
those inconsistencies lost it the original case.
The United States Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling
Enforcement Act in October 2006, ostensibly to bring its laws into conformity
with the April 2005 ruling. But the compliance panel ruled that the United
States has taken no satisfactory remedial action that would bring its laws into
conformity with its previously-established obligations. Moreover, it appears
that the United States applies its laws in a discriminatory manner, by
prosecuting foreign gambling entities more than it does U.S. gaming firms.
Game, set and match: Antigua and Barbuda
Web: https://www.unab.edu.ar/index.php/foros/profile/uzielrasheen
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