Antigua expects to resolve its longstanding online gambling trade dispute with the US government in January, according to a government cabinet minister.

On Christmas Eve, Antigua Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Fernandez told local reporters that Antigua’s government had received and reviewed the US’ latest offer to resolve the World Trade Organization dispute. Fernandez declined to provide any specifics on the US offer.

According to the Antigua Observer, Fernandez suggested Antigua was leaning towards accepting the US offer, thereby paving the way for the matter to be resolved as early as January 2016. That would be nearly 13 years since Antigua filed its original WTO complaint over America’s protectionist online gambling policy.

Antigua accused the US of unfairly discriminating against nations that had licensed US-facing online gambling sites. The US claimed it had a responsibility to block international sites to reduce problem gambling behavior, but the WTO called that policy hypocritical given that the US allowed domestic operators to offer online horseracing wagers.