Antigua Disappointed With US Gambling Response
Hardbeatnews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Mon. May 7, 2007: Antigua & Barbuda’s Baldwin Spencer government is expressing “disappointment” over the U.S.’s announcement Friday to maintain a ban on Internet gambling.
The U.S.’s Trade Representative’s office announced that despite a ruling by the World Trade Organization they would retain the ban and clarify their position that it never intended to allow Internet gambling services as part of market-opening commitments it made in the early 1990s. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John K. Veroneau said that because federal and state laws have prevented domestic companies from profiting off of interstate gambling for decades “it would be nonsensical for the U.S. to make a commitment to open up interstate gambling for foreign providers.”
