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Gambling Compliance Report

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

A "Glimpse" at the Aicraft WTO Panel Meetings

As stated in news reports, the WTO will offer a "glimpse" at the upcoming panel meeting in the aircraft case (the one brought by the U.S. against alleged subsidies to Airbus). The actual meeting will be tomorrow. However, the "glimpse" will occur on Thursday, via

The Gambling Dispute: The Interim Report

Reuters reports that the panel in the US - Gambling Article 21.5 dispute has issued its interim report, finding that the United States did not comply with the original rulings: The United States has suffered a new setback in a four-year-old legal battle with Antigua and Barbuda over U.

Airbus, pre-WTO expired programmes and retroactivity?

I have noticed that the United States mentions many pre-WTO programmes (namely pre-1995) in its panel request against Airbus. Most likely, some of these programmes were expired when the WTO entered into force. I wonder if the panel will accept to consider these pre-WTO expired programmes. In Upland Cotton, the

The Future of the Online Gambling Ban

In an earlier post, I optimistically predicted that the online gambling ban would be repealed or modified in a little over two years. This article makes my prediction seem way off the mark: Even if more libertarian minds prevail in the online gambling debate, Stewart says it could take at

Why Did the U.S. Ban Online Gambling?

In a draft paper posted on SSRN, someone argues that the U.S. online gambling ban was not about public morals-type issues at all, but solely about keeping gambling revenues in the U.S. (The author is Dana Gale -- I'm not sure who that is, and SSRN

The Gambling Case: More Complainants?

I had been wondering whether the EU would bring a complaint against the new U.S. online gambling ban, adding significant support to Antigua's existing complaint (the EU's sanctions would obviously be more potent than Antigua's sanctions). It appears that Antigua's lawyers

All Bets Are Off (Literally)

It's official: Due to legislation signed today, online gambling is now banned in the U.S. This means, of course, that the weekly internet poker game among IELP blog members is cancelled. (For the Americans among us, anyway -- the non-Americans can carry on as usual. We Americans

Airbus-Boeing: Now It's A Bidding War

It's rare that the U.S. Department of Defense gets involved in trade disputes, but I guess Airbus-Boeing is such a big dispute that it's drawing everyone in. According to Reuters, as part of the Air Force's "multibillion-dollar competition for aerial refueling tankers,

Airbus-Boeing Legal Wrangling

A few weeks ago, Joel posted about how Airbus has filed a motion in DC Superior Court to enjoin Wilmer Hale and Marco Bronckers from representing Boeing in the WTO aircraft disputes, in light of Bronckers' earlier work for Airbus. Airbus later challenged Charlene Barshefsky's role in