Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast, Monday, May 13th. I'm Anastasia Lova.

After filing two complaints against China with the WTO since March, the United States has simultaneously

thrown in the towel on its own trade commitments at the WTO, ignoring a recent ruling that it

must allow offshore internet gambling casinos to operate in the U.S. market.

While the U.S. allows interstate gambling, other countries find themselves facing discrimination.

And Antigua and Barbuda, a tiny country whose economy has been hurt by US restrictions

on gambling, is now taking aim at the United States, where it hurts

the most, intellectual property enforcement.

Our guest today as Cato Trade Policy analyst Sally James.

It's been in and out of the media eye for a while now, but internet gambling

is yet again in the news. Why now? Well, two reasons. First of all, not too long ago the

United States lost a case at the World Trade Organization

that ruled its restrictions on internet gambling that are in place at the

moment are not consistent with its obligations at the WTO. So it's been an ongoing saga in the trade world for a while now.

The other reason is about two weeks ago Barney Frank introduced a bill to lift the restriction

on internet gambling on what he claims were

libertarian grounds and he used that word libertarian he made the point and I

agree with him that what adults do in the privacy of their own homes with their own money on their own time is not the government's

business. It's not the place of government to interfere in people's

recreational time. So he proposed to lift that restriction. So I guess it's come up in the

news on both of those levels in the kind of it's reignited this civil liberties

debate and it's also an ongoing trade concern.

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