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USTR postponing EU meetings
 August 6, 2008, 10:08 am (3 years ago)Last week's shocking statement that U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab had delayed important conferences with European Union officials on a Remote Gambling Association (RGA) grievance blaming the US of prejudiced and protectionist actions in breach of World Trade Organization (WTO) regulations has still not been legitimized...or another date set.
With her being tied up with discussions with Antigua and Barbuda on an additional Internet gambling matter, Doha trade disputes and a latest threat by Brazil to start up an movement on farming financial supports, it is probable that the Trade Representative's team is getting crazy.
Until now, Schwab has accomplished just a bit to insinuate her department into the European Union. In June she gave short shrift to a European Commission printed demand for support and an opinion poll intended to make inquiries into the RGA grievance, arguing that there was “no base for any accusation of ‘prejudiced enforcement’ of US gambling laws”. It is understood that other US departments got in touch with have not reacted at all.
The RGA has argued that EU online gambling operators have been, and are, forced to follow unjust and prejudiced management, compared to their US counterparts, by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning their participation in gambling industry which occurred previous to the US removal from its WTO obligations last December.
RGA chief executive Clive Hawkswood is by now on record as articulating dissatisfaction with Schwab's rather authoritative June reply, saying: “They did not respond to the questions in the questionnaire, so the Commission is going to have a huge variety of matters they have to argue, exclusively since they did not receive much response from the US."
The newest information is that a new schedule for the conferences is at present being discussed, with the chance that the EU delegation is going to go to Washington in September.
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