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.

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.

China's Ministry of Commerce reports that Taiwan experts and local officials expect a cross-Strait economic pact with China, likely to be reached soon, to redistribute resources and restructure Taiwan's economy. The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, or ECFA, will send the signal that economic relations across the Strait to China will steadily develop.

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

The Congressional Research Service has issued a report entitled, "Europe’s Preferential Trade Agreements: Status, Content, and Implications." Among other things, the report states that there are only a few remaining major developed countries that fall outside the EU’s network of PTAs, including the U.S., China, Japan, and Australia.

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.

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

The European Chemicals Agency will be holding a webinar on June 28, 2010 to help companies prepare their REACH-IT dossiers.

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.