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TALKING TOUGH…US will not budge on gaming dispute
Thursday September 06 2007
by Patricia Campbell
The US is unlikely to back down from its position on online gambling, despite facing billions of dollars in claims. Instead, it is maintaining that withdrawal from World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade obligations to grant market access to Internet gambling companies is the best way to resolve the ongoing dispute with Antigua and Barbuda.
In an interview with the Antigua Sun yesterday, a trade official in the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), who asked not to be named in this article, said the US sees its current course as the best way of achieving closure on the issue.
Antigua and Barbuda called on the 150 members of the WTO to join it in filing compensation claims against the United States.
The European Union, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Macao and Japan answered that call.
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Antigua Sun
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