* Bangladesh in process of buying 200,000 tonnes * Japan may seek 250,000 tonnes from Vietnam-media * Mekong Delta's paddy prices rise 4 percent * Harvest of the biggest crop to end this month By Ho Binh Minh HANOI, April 5 (Reuters) - Demand for Vietnamese rice is strengthening, with deals totalling over 1 million tonnes sealed in recent weeks, while Japan may resume imports of the grain from the Southeast Asian country, state media and traders said.

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is not a partisan political issue, but a different kind of jobs bill, which is conducive to the U.S. economic and foreign policy interests, two U.S. Democratic Senators said on Monday.

New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) India's trade deficit with China has grown 13 times between 2004-05 and 2009-10, whereas the bilateral commerce increased by three-and-a-half times, reflecting a huge advantage which accrued to the neighbouring country. While India's merchandise trade with China went up from USD 12.70 billion in 2004-05, the figure reached USD 42.37 billion in 2009-10. However, a big imbalance against India accompanied the growing commercial relations between the two countries, according to the latest RBI data.

New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI)The chief negotiators of India and the European Union will hold meetings here tomorrow with an aim to conclude talks for a proposed market opening pact this year. India's chief negotiator, Commerce Ministry Special Secretary P K Chaudhary and EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero will kick off the two-day meeting from tomorrow in the capital, an official said.

China has banned the imports of poultry products from the Zeeland province of the Netherlands where an outbreak of H7N1 bird flu virus was reported on March 22, China's quarantine watchdog said. Any poultry and poultry products by mail or carried by tourists from the Netherlands will be returned or destroyed, officials from China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the Ministry of Agriculture said in a joint statement posted on the government's website (www.gov.cn) Sunday.

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Nine Pacific nations including the United States are moving ahead on building a ambitious free trade zone, but few believe they will meet a self-imposed November deadline as criticism mounts. President Barack Obama brought the United States into talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2009, breathing new life into a once-obscure group and giving him a chance to shape his own trade agenda.

U.S. planemaker Boeing received billions of dollars of unfair subsidies from the U.S. government, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday. The subsidies included banned support in the form of research and development aid from the NASA space agency.The ruling by a panel of trade judges is the latest chapter in a six-year battle over state support for the industry's two giants in what has become the world's largest trade dispute.

CANBERRA -- Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan on Friday said he is determined to bring the budget back to surplus in 2012/13, despite the latest Treasury advice that revenues will be hit by the disasters in Japan in the near term. As a result of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month, Treasury said Australia's export earnings are likely to be about 2 billion U.S. dollars lower in 2010/11.

(Reuters) - The European Union filed an appeal against an aircraft subsidies ruling on Friday just hours after calling it a victory, a tactical move in a transatlantic game of global trade chess. Europe's appeal came after the World Trade Organization ruled Boeing had received at least $5.3 billion in subsidies that were against the WTO rules, hailed as a "crystal-clear" win by the European Commission. Washington has also claimed victory in the verdict by comparing it to recent WTO condemnation of what the United States says are even larger European subsidies to Airbus.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday that a re-elected Conservative Government will aim to complete bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union by 2012 and with India in 2013. "Canada is a trading nation," Harper said during an election campaign in Halifax on the east coast of Canada. "Canadian businesses and their workers succeed and prosper when they have stable and secure access to markets and customers around the world. "