The dispute between the United States and the countries of Antigua and Barbuda over a WTO ruling on online gambling that has lasted for an extended period of time due to an agreement to give the United States time to offer a more amicable agreement but that time is quickly coming to a close which has brought the two sides together in Washington on the 23rd May '08 to seek a final resolution.

Both sides are known to have submitted proposals to the other and twice those proposals were rejected by the other party and so now negotiations will resume but they have a time deadline of June 6th when the agreed suspension of legal hostilities will end and the WTO actions will recommence.

Of course Antigua and Barbuda would like to see the United States opened up to online gambling and it is painfully obvious the USA is not wanting to make that concession. Neither side has commented on the areas of the other's proposal which were not acceptable, only stating they were rejected but that negotiations remained open for further discussion.

Next week a big banking convention takes place in Canada which will involve the Caribbean nations and many of those big bankers and investors will be watching the proceedings between the two feuding parties as the outcome of this matter may greatly effect banking in this hemisphere of the world.

Please watch this site for more news on the WTO ruling on online gambling in the United States as there will be an outcome. However this writer would not be surprised to see the U.S. thumb its nose once again at the small island nations but it may be a grave mistake if they do because of the actions these countries could take such as ignoring USA patent laws and selling software, movies, music etc all at pennies on the dollar without any compensation going to the artists or authors who created these products.

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