It seems that the United States is once again caught in a
situation where they were wanting to reap the benefits of certain agreements but
not afford the same courtesy toward those in the opposite direction. This seems
to be the case with Antigua's complaint that the United States continues to go
against the WTO's agreement to uphold the trade policies that the countries
involved had promised to uphold. It seems that certain of the laws online gaming
that are currently being upheld in the state are in compliance and other are
not, it is those that are not that the WTO feel that the US wil need to alter in
order to comply.
However the message that the currant administration is
sending is anything but compromise as new bill are being brought to the house
that would directly conflict with the WTO agreements that Antigua is already
feeling the US disregard, "Antigua and Barbuda considers that the United States
has taken no measures to comply with the recommendations and rulings." Which is
the feeling of the island that is utilizing the growing trade of online gaming
as a way to diversify its economy away from just tourism.
But as tensions rise the United States Government points out
that they feel that in the original agreement to uphold the WTO sanction that
they was a divisive plan to exclude and protect over seas online gaming before
the industry had grown to a point where the United State had developed a clear
policy on the issue of online gaming. The only thing is that the US seems to
have been sitting with their thumb up their butts, ignoring the online gaming
industry, and now trying to squelch something that its citizens have already
begun to make a huge impact on foreign economies.
