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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,

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

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

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

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