WTO Disputes

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

All WTO gambling dispute reports are filled with perplexities and the latest one, the Article 21.5 in US - Gambling dated 30 March, contains many. One that I will call the trade community's attention to comes in para. 5.9 wherein the panel laments the pre-publication of