Obama USTR to Inherit European Online Casinos Issue - Online Casino Advisory

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Reports have been released that Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, will be President-elect Obama's choice as United States Trade Representative. As such, Kirk will be trusted to settle a mess left behind by Susan Schwab, who has dealt with conflicts between the treaties her office has negotiated and the absurd hardlining of the Bush administration regarding online casinos by using a policy of ignoring US trade partners.

Kirk will walk into a situation which is rapidly escalating into a serious international trade problem, as the USTR has hardly bothered to respond to calls from leaders of the European Union and Antigua, as well as within the US Congress, to freeze actions against foreign operators of Internet casinos.

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