US officials said at the monthly meeting of the WTO\’s Dispute Settlement Body that they are working to make clear that domestic betting operations are subject to exactly the same rules as foreign ones, and that there is no discrimination against Antigua.
John Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda\’s Ambassador to the WTO, said the US statement “provided little in the way of useful information as to when and how the United States would come into compliance with the WTO\’s recommendations and rulings.”
The US have just two weeks to comply with the WTO ruling that in 2005 ordered the US Government to stop discrimination between foreign and local online gambling operators.
“We believe the time has come for the United States to demonstrate … whether the WTO agreements are to work for us all equally, or whether the WTO is indeed a \’one-way street\’ for the large economies to further enrich themselves at the expense of lesser ones,” said Ashe.
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