The claim for compensation in the Antigua WTO case are reasonable

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When the United States decided to renege on its WTO obligations with regards to providing gambling services, it likely realized the decision would be a costly one. The U.S. chose to rewrite its commitments as is afforded under Article XXI of GATS, but the article is clearly written in a way to discourage countries from doing so. After all, "a deal is a deal" has been cited many times by American spokesmen in both trade negotiations and in contract law and in fact those exact words were uttered by U.S. Trade Representatives on numerous occasions when other countries such as Mexico and China tried to opt out of commitments. So naturally the WTO wanted to ensure that trade representatives in all countries thought long and hard before deciding to alter their schedules and undermine the organization and fair bargaining process. Hence the following was written in Article XXI paragraph 2 under the section of rewriting of schedules.

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