Table 4a  Philippine Imports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc:  October 2010 and 2009
         (F.O.B. Value in Million U.S. Dollars)

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                                              2 0 1 0                |               2 0 0 9                |  Annual Growth
Country of Origin                        Percent |           Percent |         Percent  |            Percent|    Rate (%)
                                October     Share|   Jan-Oct    Share|   October   Share|    Jan-Oct   Share| Current Cumulative
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                 Total         4,888.40    100.00  44,826.11   100.00   3,808.29  100.00   35,500.76  100.00    28.36      26.27

1 Eastern Asia 1/              1,792.74     36.67  16,473.04    36.75   1,470.05   38.60   13,673.67   38.52    21.95      20.47
2 A S E A N 2/                 1,243.24     25.43  12,966.13    28.93     912.55   23.96    9,163.03   25.81    36.24      41.50
3 United States of America 3/    481.47      9.85   4,749.28    10.59     437.41   11.49    4,307.28   12.13    10.07      10.26
4 European Union 4/              375.06      7.67   3,111.08     6.94     267.26    7.02    2,722.05    7.67    40.33      14.29
5 Others                         995.89     20.37   7,526.58    16.79     721.02   18.93    5,634.72   15.87    38.12      33.57

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 Source:  Foreign Trade 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 & Hawaii
 4  includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
      Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
      Spain, Sweden, Latvia,  and UK Great Britain & N. Ireland

    Components may not add up to total due to rounding.

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