Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          August 2009 and 2008
          (F.O.B Value in Million U.S. Dollars)

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                                                    2009                  |                2008                 | Annual Growth Rate
Country                                        Percent|            Percent|           Percent|           Percent|     (Percent)
                                     Jan-Aug p   Share|   August p   Share|   Jan-Aug   Share|    August   Share| Cumulative Current
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                 Total                3,472.12  100.00  24,004.37   100.00   4,394.50  100.00  34,454.31  100.00    (20.99)   (30.33)

  1  Eastern Asia 1/                  1,373.07   39.55  10,030.41    41.79   2,069.57   47.09  15,939.86   46.26    (33.65)   (37.07)
  3  European  Union ( EU ) 2/          721.72   20.79   4,658.07    19.41     678.95   15.45   6,013.00   17.45      6.30    (22.53)
  4  United  States of  America 3/      628.02   18.09   4,188.42    17.45     653.31   14.87   5,519.72   16.02     (3.87)   (24.12)
  2  A S E A N 4/                       566.95   16.33   3,549.54    14.79     702.15   15.98   5,131.87   14.89    (19.25)   (30.83)
  5  Others                             182.35    5.25   1,577.92     6.57     290.52    6.61   1,849.86    5.37    (37.23)   (14.70)


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Source:  Foreign Trader Statistics Section
         Industry and Trade Statistics Department
         National Statistics Office
         Republic of the Philippines


Notes:
   1/ includes China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, N. Korea, S. Korea, Taiwan
   2/ includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
       Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Latvia,  and UK Great Britain & N. Ireland,
       Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg
   3/ includes Alaska and Hawaii
   4/ includes Brunei Darusalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

         Components may not add up to totals due to rounding.

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