Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          May 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)
                                         May p   Share|   Jan-May p   Share|       May   Share|   Jan-May   Share| Current Cumulative
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                Total               4,930.99    100.00  22,442.58    100.00   4,118.69  100.00  20,711.17  100.00    19.72      8.36

 1 East Asia 1/                     2,325.24     47.16  10,967.49     48.87   1,852.09   44.97   9,456.68   45.66    25.55     15.98
 2 A S E A N 2/                     1,111.11     22.53   4,135.50     18.43     715.10   17.36   4,048.48   19.55    55.38      2.15
 3 United  States of  America 3/      714.06     14.48   3,410.32     15.20     702.56   17.06   3,101.25   14.97     1.64      9.97
 4 European  Union ( EU ) 4/          481.20      9.76   2,598.97     11.58     435.57   10.58   2,614.32   12.62    10.48     (0.59)
 5 Others                             299.38      6.07   1,330.30      5.93     413.37   10.04   1,490.45    7.20   (27.58)   (10.74)

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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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