The compliance panel’s verdict on US implementation of the April 2005 Appellate Body ruling in the Internet gambling dispute may be delayed until January or February 2007, Antigua and Barbuda’s legal advisor Mark Mendel has said.
Antigua and Barbuda maintains that the US has taken no action to comply with the ruling (Bridges Year 10 No.6, page 9).
The matter may be further complicated by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act passed by the US Congress on 30 September. The legislation prohibits US banks/companies from processing credit card payments to Internet gambling sites, but allows certain exceptions for intra- US transactions.