WTO: Antigua correct, US wrong

The World Trade Organization has releases it's report outlining the arguments and evidence in the case finding that the US is improperly preventing or restricting or limiting Antigua and other licensed legal gambling venues from doing business competitively.

News US to appeal WTO ruling on internet gambling

11/11/2004

The US is set to appeal a World Trade Organisation ruling that the hard line taken by the US on internet gambling is in breach of world trade rules, a spokesman for the US Trade Representative said yesterday.

The issue of internet gambling was brought before the WTO in June 2003 when the tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda complained that US prohibitions against internet gambling were discriminatory and in breach of international trade agreements that require the US to allow foreign internet companies to offer their services to US citizens.