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Last month, Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s ambassador to the United States, sought support in a speech before a meeting of the World Trade Organization\u2019s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) in Geneva, Switzerland. He lamented that his country is \u201closing all hope\u201d that its 15-year-long trade dispute with the United States will be amicably settled through private, bilateral negotiations. Sanders is, furthermore, considering asking the WTO\u2019s head to mediate a solution.[i]<\/sup><\/p>

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In 2003, Antigua and Barbuda, a nation little larger than Washington D.C., with a GDP barely exceeding 1 billion USD, challenged the world\u2019s foremost economic power before the WTO over the latter\u2019s crackdown on American participation in offshore online gambling, an industry which had been a pillar of the island nation\u2019s tiny economy.\u00a0[ii]<\/sup>\u00a0Washington has refused to comply with WTO rulings in Antigua\u2019s favor or agree to a financial settlement. Antiguan officials had hoped that the catastrophic devastation the island nation suffered in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma would compel Washington to change its position, but so far nothing has changed.<\/p>

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As the Council on Hemispheric Affairs noted in a 2013 report, the United States \u201cmust exist in the brave new world it helped create.\u201d[iii]<\/sup> The U.S.\u2019 handling of this dispute is inconsistent with the values that it champions, including moral leadership and the rule of law. Settling this dispute, particularly in the form of a humanitarian contribution would bode little cost for the U.S. economy and provide desperately needed relief to those still suffering from Irma\u2019s devastation. Keeping this trade rift alive not only harms the reputation of the United States but may also set the stage for larger trade disputes in the future. https:\/\/pg-slot.world\/<\/a><\/p>

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Antiguan Roulette<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1994, Antigua and Barbuda enacted the Free Trade and Processing Zone Act, opening the door for companies based in the country to legally offer online gambling services. Antigua\u2019s status as the only country offering such legal protection for online gambling enticed foreign companies and entrepreneurs to relocate to the island during the late 1990s. This influx led to dramatic growth in the local gaming industry. By 1999 there were 119 licensed online casino operators in Antigua, which employed more than 3,000 people, paid out over 12 million USD in wages and over 7 million USD to the government in licensing fees.[iv]<\/sup> By the year 2000, 61% of all online gambling activity on Earth was based in Antigua.[v]<\/sup><\/p>

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During the late 1990s and early 2000s, around 60% of online gamblers were U.S. citizens. Federal and state officials in the U.S. were deeply alarmed by the growth of the cross-border online gambling industry.[vi]<\/sup> They feared it would expose minors to gambling and facilitate criminal fraud and money laundering operations.[vii]<\/sup>Although internet gambling was not specifically discussed in U.S. law at the time, the Department of Justice began cracking down on these online casinos in 1998. They argued that the practice violated the Wire Act of 1961, which restricts the placing of bets via wire-based methods of communication. [viii]<\/sup> That year, federal agents arrested 21 Americans for either operating or participating in online casinos, some based in Antigua.[ix]<\/sup>Several state attorneys-general also began pressuring U.S. banks and money transfer companies, including PayPal and Western Union, to block credit card and other transactions related to offshore online gambling, to great success.[x]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Two Against the Ace<\/strong><\/p>

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The U.S. crackdown had an immediate, severe impact on Antigua\u2019s gambling industry. According to the Antiguan Directorate of Gaming, between 2001 and 2002, 12 licensed online gambling companies operating on the island either shut down or relocated. Around 700 industry jobs were lost, and state revenue from online casino licensing fees and taxes declined by 11.8%.[xi]<\/sup> Antigua approached the WTO in March 2003, arguing that U.S. gambling restrictions were not only damaging its economy but also violated Washington\u2019s commitment to free trade enshrined in the 1995 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). A WTO panel ruled in Antigua\u2019s favor in 2004 and rejected a U.S. appeal the following year. The WTO ordered Washington to amend its gambling laws by April 2006. The U.S. failed to comply with the ruling.[xii]<\/sup><\/p>

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In 2007, a WTO arbiter estimated that U.S. anti-gambling policies were costing Antigua an estimated 21 million USD a year.[xiii]<\/sup> In response to this estimate and Washington\u2019s noncompliance, St. John\u2019s requested permission to retaliate by suspending enforcement of U.S. intellectual property laws. This would allow Antigua to sell American media content, including films and music, over the internet without paying royalties to the creators.[xiv]<\/sup> The request was granted in 2013, but Antigua declined to implement the sanction and, instead, has sought a monetary settlement from the United States through private negotiations.[xv]<\/sup> These, however, have been unsuccessful, as Washington has maintained that the WTO had no right to demand changes to \u201cfundamental legitimate public policies\u201d of a member state, and that the data Antigua has presented detailing the gaming industry\u2019s value to its economy was \u201cunreliable.\u201d[xvi]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irma Changes the Game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Antiguan officials made a few public comments about the trade dispute over the following four years, it largely lost international attention until September 2017 when Hurricane Irma, a category five storm with winds up to 185mph, struck the nation. Irma made landfall on the small island of Barbuda on the sixth, destroying 95 percent of its buildings. This devastation, and fears that the island would be hit again by the oncoming hurricanes Jose and Maria, Barbuda\u2019s 1,800 residents were evacuated.[xvii]<\/sup> Barbuda was spared from the other storms, but Irma caused roughly 300 million USD in damages, more than one-fifth of the nation\u2019s GDP. [xviii]<\/sup> To this day, less than half of displaced Barbudans have been able to return.[xix]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of the broader economic damage it created, Hurricane Irma steeled St. John\u2019s\u2019 resolve to settle the trade dispute once and for all. In a WTO meeting, two weeks after the storm, Ambassador Sanders announced that the United States had only offered less than 2 million USD in restitution, a sum St. John\u2019s considered unacceptable as it represents only one-one hundredth the total damages U.S. policies have cost Antigua over the past decade.[xx]<\/sup> In October 2017, Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, told the Los Angeles Times<\/em> that U.S. restrictions have \u201cdestroyed\u201d his country\u2019s gambling industry, which now employs only a tenth the amount of people it did in the early 2000s.[xxi]<\/sup> He noted that U.S. damages to Antigua\u2019s economy now amounted to over 200 million USD, and insisted that while he does not expect Washington to pay this amount in full, he asks that it provide \u201csomething substantive to compensate for the damages over the years.\u201d[xxii]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irma\u2019s devastation and Antiguan officials\u2019 pleas did little to soften Washington\u2019s position. U.S officials did not speak publicly on the trade dispute in 2017, but blasted St. John\u2019s after Sanders brought up the issue again at this year\u2019s WTO dispute body meeting. The U.S.\u2019 WTO envoy accused Antigua of failing to respond to the Trump administration\u2019s offer of further negotiations and, of making \u201cextreme demands,\u201d arguing that St. John\u2019s is trying to make \u201ca political statement\u201d instead of genuinely engaging in finding a resolution.[xxiii]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An American Gamble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States has little reason not to settle its Antiguan dispute with a payment at or near the calculated costs of Antigua\u2019s trade damages, and, it is in fact in its best interest to do so. The U.S. argument that the WTO has no authority over a nation\u2019s domestic legislation is no longer relevant. Furthermore, the U.S. argument that Antigua has submitted flawed data to the WTO in its claim is undermined by the fact that the WTO\u2019s 2007 valuation of Antigua\u2019s damages was based on an independent investigation. Washington has recently introduced a new defense, arguing that monetary settlements are not discussed as a resolution for disputes under WTO rules[xxiv]<\/sup> However, in 2014 the United States agreed to pay a 300 million USD settlement to Brazil regarding a WTO dispute over cotton subsidies.[xxv]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allowing this dispute to continue could very easily have seriously detrimental consequences for the United States, and potentially the world, over the coming years. This is in part because the United States also relies on the WTO to counter trade practices by other nations that it feels are unfair and harmful to its economy. Since 2009, Washington has filed nearly 30 complaints with the WTO (five since President Donald Trump took office), primarily against China, India and the European Union (EU).[xxvi]<\/sup> Ironically, the United States has also been a victim of noncompliance. In 2011, the EU failed to end subsidies for the aircraft manufacturing company Airbus, as ordered by the WTO in a suit brought by the United States[xxvii]<\/sup>Furthermore, just this past January, the Trump Administration issued a scathing report detailing several cases of China flouting  unfavorable WTO rulings, and, declaring Beijing\u2019s noncompliance as a cause for unilateral imposition of tariffs against Beijing, the first of which took effect in July 2018.[xxviii]<\/sup> Continued U.S noncompliance with WTO rulings in the Antiguan dispute could, and likely will, be cited by other states to justify their own refusal to comply with future WTO rulings. This outcome would lead to the proliferation of tariffs and further undermine international economic stability and free trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S-Antiguan dispute also threatens to eat away at Washington\u2019s relationships with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

other Caribbean nations, many of which have already made it clear whose side they are on. During this year\u2019s WTO-DSB meeting, the representatives of Barbados, Dominica, and Jamaica all issued statements supporting Antigua, while no WTO member spoke in Washington\u2019s favor.[xxix]<\/sup> It is particularly important for the United States to maintain strong relationships with the Caribbean community, as rivals, particularly China, are working tirelessly to expand their geopolitical, economic and increasingly, military influence in the region.[xxx<\/sup>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Winning Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An amicable settlement to this dispute, on the other hand, could be of great, long-term benefit to both the United States and Antigua and Barbuda. As Todd Tucker, a fellow at the New York-based Roosevelt Institute, suggested in 2017, the United States could pay restitution to Antigua in the form of direct humanitarian aid.[xxxi]<\/sup> This course of action would be mutually beneficial to the United States and the people of Antigua and Barbuda. A settlement could contribute substantially to ongoing reconstruction efforts, particularly on Barbuda, which still suffers from extensive infrastructural damage. Between February and June 2018, a 2 million USD initiative funded by China successfully repaired the roofs of more than 250 buildings on Barbuda, including homes and healthcare facilities.[xxxii]<\/sup> A U.S. settlement, which would likely total 100 times that amount, would accomplish so much more and enhance Washington\u2019s image in the increasingly geopolitically competitive Caribbean region. Furthermore, even if Antigua has been unresponsive to recent outreach attempts as the United States has alleged, this settlement offer could simply be made in publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As to the costs of a settlement, even a payment of the full amount of damages to Antigua, which now totals 315 million USD, would mean little for the United States. Washington spent 45 billion USD on foreign aid programs in 2017 alone.[xxxiii]<\/sup> A sizable portion of this money even went to countries with strained or adversarial relations with the United States, including China (29 million USD), Russia (17 million USD in 2016), [North] Sudan (151 million USD) and Venezuela (9 million USD in 2016).[xxxiv]<\/sup> Unlike these states, St. John\u2019s has insisted that it considers Washington a generations-long \u201cfriend,\u201d and cites its American artists who have \u201ccontributed much to the enjoyment and advancement of the world,\u201d as its reasoning for not exercising its right to retaliate.[xxxv]<\/sup> Antigua deserves a friendly ending to this unfortunate dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the outcome, the Antiguan-U.S. trade dispute highlights a critical flaw present in nearly all international institutions. Means of enforcement are limited and the overwhelming advantages that large, wealthy states have over their less powerful counterparts\u2014which such organizations were designed to negate\u2014persist. However, the United States, as the architect and longtime champion of the rules-based international order, has an obligation to adhere to the rule of law. An amicable settlement could provide much-needed relief to thousands of people in Antigua and Barbuda still struggling to recover from a historic storm.<\/p>\n

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