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No News is Bad News at the WTO?

Another China WTO dispute on the horizon: China was criticised at the World Trade Organisation on Monday for its restrictions on foreign news agencies who are unable to sell their information to local media, trade sources said. Canada, the United States, Japan and the European Union all requested more information

Coming Soon: The Gambling Arbitration Ruling

One of Antigua's lawyers says the Arbitrator's ruling in the Gambling case will be out on November 30. I will be very impressed if they can reach a decision by then -- they have a lot to sort through. He also said that any IP sanctions

More From The Gambling 22.6 Arbitration

In earlier posts on the Gambling arbitration, I focused on the figures involved, but there is an underlying interpretive issue that is very interesting which, as far as I know, has not been addressed before. Antigua argues that the amount of nullification or impairment should be based on the failure

The Gambling Case: Both Tracks Moving Forward

Both tracks of the Gambling case continue to move ahead, with the parties still trying to reach agreement (and not getting that close, it seems). With regard to the U.S. withdrawal of its Gambling services commitments, the Financial Times reports that the U.S. compensation proposal to the EU

More from the BusinessWeek Gambling Debate

Yesterday I mentioned the BusinessWeek debate on how the U.S. should respond to the WTO Gambling decision. The user comments on the debate continue, and I found one aspect somewhat interesting. One of the comments came from a "G Clark," who I think was one of the

The DS316 Aircraft Panel Hearing

Following-up on Roger Alford's post over at Opinio Juris and Tomer's post on this blog, the WTO panel hearing on one part of the Aircraft dispute (DS316, involving alleged subsides to Airbus) took place last week. As Roger and Tomer noted, the hearing was transparent to

Dance of the Seven Veils

The second meeting of the Airbus dispute panel (DS316), scheduled to conclude today, I believe, will be aired to the "public" through "an opportunity to view a videotape, at a date to be announced" (see USTR announcement)(hat tip: Roger Alford at Opiniojuris). To an uninformed

More on the Washington State Gambling Case

The complaint filed in Washington state related to the internet gambling ban is available here. I'm a little unclear on the facts, but the basic point in the complaint seems to be that Washington has legal gambling, including poker, and legal internet gambling, such as on horse-racing, but

The Gambling Case: Suspension and Compensation

While the WTO negotiations flounder, the WTO dispute process carries on. Antigua's DSU Article 22.2 suspension request in the Gambling case is now available. In it, Antigua requests authorization to suspend concessions and obligations in the amount of US$3.443 billion per year to match the

Developments in the Gambling Dispute

According to press reports, the U.S. is planning to "clarify" its GATS commitments relating to gambling services, pursuant to GATS Article XXI: The United States said Friday it was not required to comply with a WTO ruling to open its borders to the Internet gambling industry because