Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          August 2010 and 2009
          (F.O.B Value in Million U.S. Dollars)

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                                                    2010                  |                2009                 | Annual Growth Rate
Country                                        Percent|            Percent|           Percent|           Percent|     (Percent)
                                      August p   Share|  Jan-Aug p   Share|    August   Share|   Jan-Aug   Share| Current Cumulative
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                Total               4,744.99    100.00  32,969.97   100.00   3,472.89  100.00  24,011.00  100.00    36.63      37.31

 1 Eastern Asia 1/                  1,977.50     41.68  13,559.11    41.13   1,373.01   39.54  10,031.81   41.78    44.03      35.16
 2 A S E A N 2/                     1,310.66     27.62   7,042.71    21.36     567.97   16.35   3,553.44   14.80   130.76      98.19
 3 United  States of  America 3/      641.74     13.52   5,247.91    15.92     628.00   18.08   4,188.43   17.44     2.19      25.30
 4 European  Union ( EU ) 4/          536.21     11.30   5,298.44    16.07     721.62   20.78   4,658.41   19.40   (25.69)     13.74
 5 Others                             278.88      5.88   1,821.80     5.53     182.29    5.25   1,578.91    6.58    52.99      15.38

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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 Brunei Darusalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
   3/ includes Alaska and Hawaii.
   4/ 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.

         Components may not add up to totals due to rounding.

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