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| | October 10, 2008
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Product: Backpacks (MMF)
Data in $
Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 YTD 8/2007 YTD 8/2008
World 262,940,039 278,091,276 304,057,311 327,851,462 336,877,839 392,994,388 421,429,986 337,605,597 315,839,476
China 41,780,378 136,088,146 205,955,019 246,351,920 259,217,652 310,860,465 331,646,319 269,878,987 262,505,527
Vietnam 210,897 20,850,775 29,509,758 36,302,803 37,840,305 42,601,577 50,688,473 38,006,775 34,792,568
Philippines 57,045,458 41,295,990 24,965,006 22,038,623 14,412,588 16,504,286 15,318,759 10,689,910 9,160,980
Thailand 26,775,864 12,919,814 10,666,480 6,565,324 9,967,469 10,801,888 11,867,837 10,051,074 2,837,052
_CBI 161,848 1,270 57,347 53,843 849,028 849,911 2,119,621 1,525,425 1,506,378
_CAFTA 161,362 266 53,602 53,843 839,894 813,725 2,119,621 1,525,425 1,506,378
Indonesia 52,308,282 33,005,890 17,127,149 6,596,452 4,670,375 2,603,354 1,707,122 1,529,449 1,451,174
El Salvador 0 0 33,785 23,676 834,668 812,626 2,012,108 1,472,594 1,272,414
Canada 3,657,129 2,910,329 2,982,875 1,898,147 2,597,307 2,859,590 2,552,654 1,996,375 916,469
Korea, South 17,722,518 4,591,916 1,709,421 1,351,931 666,408 671,868 712,615 413,359 505,603
Taiwan 19,313,841 3,448,788 925,546 642,395 1,070,268 1,629,787 1,097,894 911,291 498,497
Hong Kong 74,442 1,336,739 2,297,104 2,289,793 1,907,396 2,015,492 1,714,207 1,057,627 439,036
Israel 41,102 31,756 23,930 83,109 45,528 50,976 107,156 22,371 361,503
Mexico 6,760,055 3,646,184 649,112 279,547 153,749 217,769 215,952 165,404 156,922
Dominican Republic 161,087 0 19,560 13,888 2,329 0 3,998 3,998 145,380
India 110,542 108,317 65,386 25,335 49,560 34,583 189,948 147,776 101,783
Italy 774,988 422,334 259,160 300,101 210,846 165,346 398,594 261,725 98,927
France 77,791 159,396 112,951 328,668 638,449 201,477 155,906 143,699 89,923
Costa Rica 0 0 0 10,294 2,095 1,099 93,274 46,532 86,064
_SUB-SAHARA 6,648 3,829 9,209 17,380 0 14,010 0 0 80,722
Cameroon 0 0 8,334 1,200 0 14,010 0 0 80,722
Netherlands 14,139 3,255 17,298 19,950 29,015 29,449 6,545 6,545 64,897
Switzerland 44,476 37,777 88,724 96,033 32,873 58,894 39,346 32,284 52,213
Pakistan 11,785 3,973 3,775 5,386 15,168 47,916 68,905 32,718 37,685
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel.