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U.S. Legitimizes Online Casino Dispute

A U.S. politician has actually spoken out publicly that the U.S. may have overstepped its position in trying to alter World Trade Organization policies regarding global trade agreements and online casinos gambling laws. New York Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel recently attended a Caribbean business conference this week with several other members of the U.S. Congress. The conference was organized with the intention of addressing the WTO dispute and so that Antiguan politicians could provide U.S. politicians with a more in depth look at what they view as hypocritical gambling laws that negatively target offshore online casino gambling companies.

Leading the Caribbean conference was Antigua’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer. Spencer has adamantly asserted for years that the U.S. practiced discriminatory online casino gambling and betting practices. It wasn’t until last year’s Unlawful Internet Gambling Act that U.S. policy truly devastated the Antiguan economy which relied on online casinos gambling specifically within the United States. The UIGEA crippled the Antiguan economy yet for months the U.S. government refused to acknowledge that Antigua had any legitimate claim for compensation because of the UIGEA.

But in the past few months, the U.S. government has begun to reconcile differences and compensation claims from other countries through the WTO. And to facilitate these discussions, Congressman Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee went to Antigua for the conference. At the close of the weekend of discussions, tours, and meetings, Rangel commented to local media, "I think my country is wrong in trying to change the rules of the WTO. Your great nation and ours will have to negotiate those differences in terms of equity and fairness."

This is precisely the attitude that PM Spencer was hoping would come out of the weekend conference over U.S. discriminatory online casino gambling laws. He comments, "We're hoping that coming out of this dialogue here, Charlie Rangel would have a better and greater appreciation of Antigua and Barbuda's position."