The fight is kept up by European online gaming companies:

The unsatisfactory compensation deal made at the World Trade Organization has led to European online gaming companies to file a discrimination complaint against the US for its Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

With the filing involving online bingo operations and games products, the European companies claim that the US Department of Justice is violating international trade law.

 

In a bid to maintain its UIGEA legislation, which disrupts the financial transactions existing between non-US online gaming companies and US customers, the US withdrew from its WTO treaty obligations.

With this, the final result of US policy is that domestic US online companies have an unfair advantage over their European counterparts. So with the implementation of the UIGEA, online bingo halls in EU and other international bingo online operators have suffered a lot.

And in the middle of all this is the Remote Gaming Association whose CEO Clive Hawkswood claims that they have no other choice than to pursue legal avenues in challenging US Department of Justice for its discriminatory enforcement activities against European online gaming operators.

With this, he asks how US investors and businessmen would feel if they invested in a UK based business following international law commitments only to find out that UK had not passed new laws.

 

This in turn forced them to shut their business and to throw them in jail for past activities while permitting their domestic competitors to follow the same thing.

It was on last Monday that a trade compensation deal was finally fixed upon between EU and US where European-based companies had access to US postal and warehouse sectors as compensation for lack of gaming access.

 

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