Internet Gambling Ban Easing?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-16 04:06:14
It feels like a long-shot but some congress-people are making a push to try to go internet gambling bans has the story:
The Bush administration should believe relaxing laws against Internet gambling rather than assay setting a potentially expensive and "worrisome" precedent with European nations and other trade partners eight lawmakers said in a earn on Monday.
The lawmakers were critical of the U. S government reaction after it lost a World change Organization contend with the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua over online casinos. U. S officials declared the administration never meant for Internet gambling to be covered by international trade agreements.
Arbitrators now are considering alter claims from Antigua an online gaming haven that said a U. S law seeking to block betting over the Internet was an illegal create of protectionism.
Other members of the World Trade Organization including the European Union. Japan and Australia also are claiming compensation for lost online gaming revenues in the billions of dollars.
Compensation "could prove expensive to the U. S economy," the lawmakers said in a earn to Susan Schwab the U. S change representative. "However we are perhaps more concerned about what this withdrawal says about U. S credibility as a trading furnish."
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