Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          October 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-Oct p   Share|  October p   Share|   Jan-Oct   Share|   October   Share| Cumulative Current
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                  Total               3,659.61  100.00   31,300.37  100.00  3,990.06   100.00  42,889.99  100.00     (8.28)   (27.02)

 1 Eastern Asia 1/                    1,367.72   37.37   12,914.73   41.26  1,822.16    45.67  19,781.72   46.12    (24.94)   (34.71)
 3 European  Union ( EU ) 2/            904.33   24.71    6,325.22   20.21    735.11    18.42   7,449.08   17.37     23.02    (15.09)
 4 United  States of  America 3/        660.48   18.05    5,497.21   17.56    697.73    17.49   7,024.40   16.38     (5.34)   (21.74)
 2 A S E A N 4/                         541.98   14.81    4,616.47   14.75    514.62    12.90   6,318.70   14.73      5.32    (26.94)
 5 Others                               185.10    5.06    1,946.74    6.22    220.44     5.52   2,316.09    5.40    (16.03)   (15.95)

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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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