> The US is a member of the WTO, but banned online gambling for years without any real sanctions against them. I see you're trying to cast a hypocritical light

> The US is a member of the WTO, but banned online gambling for years without any real sanctions against them. I see you're trying to cast a hypocritical light on the US, even though the US has nothing to do with it. The complainants (Antigua and Barbuda) were compensated in 2014, by the US. Ultimately a country can build a case for banning a thing (a good, service, etc.) but if a country says 'These widgets are OK, in fact we manufacture them ourselves, but we've decided to ban the ones that come from country X' then that usually is anti-trade in no uncertain terms, in WTO language it is 'unfair.' It's not like the US banned online gambling on purpose so as to try to cripple the Antiguan economy, as would be the case for banning Korean exports to China.