On June 16, 2010, Members of European Parliament adopted draft legislation on food labeling that would require quantities of fat, saturates, sugar and salt - as well as energy - to be indicated on the front of food packages along with daily guideline amounts. It would also extend EU country of origin labeling requirements to meat, poultry, and dairy products. They also voted for the country of origin to be stated for meat, poultry and fish when used as an ingredient in processed food. However, this may be subject to an impact assessment.

The World Trade Organization has posted Vietnam's responses to questions posed by the U.S. on its safeguard measures, such as whether the WTO Agreement on Safeguards is self-implementing in Vietnam.

The World Trade Organization has posted an overview of the specific trade concerns raised by the Technical Barriers to Trade Committee over the period 1995 - March 2010.

The European Commission has posted the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Association Agreement between the EU and Central America.

Xinhuanet.com reports that China appears to have won in a dispute against the U.S. over the latter's ban on poultry imports, according to an interim report by the World Trade Organization. "We think the US will not try to impose a similar ban in the next fiscal year, since it would be regarded as open defiance of the latest WTO ruling," a Ministry of Commerce official said.

In the June 17, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notice was posted:

The World Trade Organization reports that during the June 8-9, 2010 meeting of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council, members discussed intellectual property enforcement trends, including concerns about a group of countries negotiating an anti-counterfeiting agreement; whether life forms should be eligible for patenting; and plans to beef up the annual review of a 2003 decision on access to medicines.

In the June 16, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization have issued their annual Agricultural Outlook for the period 2010-2019. Among other things, the report concludes that farm commodity prices have fallen from their record peaks of two years ago but are unlikely to drop back to their average levels of the past decade.

The Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament has approved 41-2 a plan for a new European Union agricultural policy, representing the committee's contribution to the debate on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013. The plan includes certain reforms to improve competitiveness and discusses climate change reduction, food security and food quality.