Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          March 2012 and 2011
          (F.O.B Value in Million U.S. Dollars)

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                                                    2012                  |                2011                 | Annual Growth Rate
Country                                        Percent|            Percent|           Percent|           Percent|     (Percent)
                                       March p   Share|  Jan-Mar p   Share|     March   Share|   Jan-Mar   Share| Current Cumulative
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                   Total             4,302.15   100.00  12,856.02   100.00   4,356.35  100.00  12,286.04  100.00    (1.24)      4.64

 1 East Asia 1/                      2,011.98    46.77   6,160.58    47.92   2,108.42   48.40   5,511.88   44.86    (4.57)     11.77
 2 A S E A N 2/                        800.85    18.62   2,243.66    17.45     813.62   18.68   2,484.54   20.22    (1.57)     (9.69)
 3 United  States of  America 3/       668.25    15.53   2,018.79    15.70     609.93   14.00   1,830.41   14.90     9.56      10.29
 4 European  Union ( EU ) 4/           544.44    12.66   1,671.51    13.00     541.00   12.42   1,626.75   13.24     0.64       2.75
 5 Others                              276.63     6.43     761.48     5.92     283.37    6.50     832.45    6.78    (2.38)     (8.53)

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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 Darussalam, 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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