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U.S. loses WTO ruling covering Online Gambling 3/24/2004 (Warren Giles, Bloomberg News) Antigua and Barbuda, the Caribbean island nation, has won a World Trade Organization ruling in a finding that U.S. legislation criminalizing online betting violates WTO commercial services accords. Antigua, which has a population of 68,000, filed a complaint with the WTO about a year ago concerning the United States' position effectively banning Internet gambling. The U.S. position has slashed revenue in Antigua, which developed online gambling to boost an economy whose main income, tourism, suffered after a series of hurricanes. Some gaming observers say the ruling may have limited affect on the longstanding position of the U.S. government that Internet gambling is illegal. In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun earlier this week, American Gaming Association Chief Executive Frank Fahrenkopf said such a ruling probably wouldn't have much power to affect change in the United States.  Full Story
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