At the EU–UK Summit on 20 May 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa endorsed a renewed political commitment to reinforce and expand bilateral cooperation between the United Kingdom and the European Union. As the decisions that were made will impact on bilateral trade, health and some elements of product compliance, Hong Kong sellers with customers in both the UK and the EU may find this topic to be of particular interest.

For the purposes of implementing the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and using advanced standards to boost high-quality development in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), the GBA Standardization Research Center promulgated on 8 May a Notice Concerning the Standards to be Included in the List of GBA Standards in accordance with the requirements stipulated in the Guidelines for Promoting the Development of Standards in the GBA (Trial) (Notice No. 66 [2023] of the Guangdong Administration for Market Regulation). Nine items are proposed for addition to the list of standards to be adopted throughout the GBA (“GBA Standards”).

This study focuses on four key non-Muslim majority Halal food exporters – Brazil, Australia, South Korea and Thailand – and seeks to understand the factors that may have made them such successful suppliers and highlight the lessons for Hong Kong companies if they are to develop Halal food trade.

The FDA has extended until 15 July the period for interested parties to comment on a 16 January proposal to require a front-of-package nutrition label for most packaged foods that, according to the agency, would give consumers readily visible information about a food’s saturated fat, sodium and added sugars content.