Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          December 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-Dec p   Share| December p   Share|   Jan-Dec   Share|  December   Share| Cumulative Current
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                Total               3,304.35    100.00  38,326.71   100.00   2,674.58  100.00  49,077.54  100.00     23.55   (21.91)

 1 Eastern Asia 1/                  1,200.08     36.32  15,501.13    40.44   1,117.74   41.79  22,557.07   45.96      7.37   (31.28)
 3 European  Union ( EU ) 2/          702.04     21.25   7,885.14    20.57     479.99   17.95   8,500.37   17.32     46.26    (7.24)
 4 United  States of  America 3/      627.86     19.00   6,779.26    17.69     573.98   21.46   8,207.13   16.72      9.39   (17.40)
 2 A S E A N 4/                       569.60     17.24   5,830.79    15.21     342.39   12.80   7,089.91   14.45     66.36   (17.76)
 5 Others                             204.76      6.20   2,330.40     6.08     160.46    6.00   2,723.06    5.55     27.61   (14.42)

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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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