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Antigua’s Minister of Finance and the Economy Dr. Errol Cort is scheduled to hold a high level meeting with the US Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab and other officials in the USTR’s office in Washington today with the intention to finally resolve the World Trade Organization (WTO) Internet gambling dispute between the two countries over market access for online poker and Internet gambling operators registered in Antigua and Barbuda.

The trade dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) began in 2003 when Antigua filed their case with the WTO against US violation of the GATS treaty they had signed as a WTO member. The dispute took an unusual turn after the US lost their final appeal early in 2007, then decided to pull online gambling from their trade treaties, triggering other WTO members who would be adversely affected to make claims to compensate for their losses

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