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Online Gaming May Recruit Costa Rica in US Push
The
international gaming industry is apparently eyeing Central America as a
viable entry point to more freely expand Internet gambling in the
lucrative U.S. market, including Utah, where such games are not legal.
The Office of
the U.S. Trade Representative is assuring the various states that they
can still regulate Internet gambling, despite a recent negative ruling
by the World Trade Organization. But it now appears the online casinos
that prompted the dispute between the United States and the tiny island
nation of Antigua in the WTO case could be trying to sneak in through
Costa Rica.
The focus of concern is language in — and not in — the Central
American Free Trade Agreement. CAFTA contains numerous free-trade
provisions, but, unlike the WTO agreement, it has no "public morals"
exception to traded goods and services that would specifically allow the
United States or any of the 50 states to regulate the online gaming
industry.
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