Table 3A  Philippine Exports Performance by Selected Economic Bloc
          August 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)
                                      August p   Share|   Jan-Aug p   Share|    August   Share|   Jan-Aug   Share| Current Cumulative
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                 Total               3,797.84   100.00   35,282.60   100.00   4,172.90  100.00  33,479.13  100.00    (8.99)      5.39

 1 East Asia 1/                      1,738.74    45.78   16,676.76    47.27   2,015.34   48.30  15,786.59   47.15   (13.72)      5.64
 2 A S E A N 2/                        889.56    23.42    7,043.29    19.96     762.14   18.26   6,291.53   18.79    16.72      11.95
 3 United  States of  America 3/       499.27    13.15    5,252.53    14.89     614.25   14.72   4,939.89   14.76   (18.72)      6.33
 4 European  Union ( EU ) 4/           440.03    11.59    4,192.79    11.88     513.65   12.31   4,146.54   12.39   (14.33)      1.12
 5 Others                              230.24     6.06    2,117.23     6.00     267.51    6.41   2,314.58    6.91   (13.93)     (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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