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Product: WOMEN'S HANDBAGS AND PURSES
Data in NO
Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 YTD 8/2007 YTD 8/2008
World 230,290,408 269,904,094 308,138,378 363,809,409 388,175,565 350,440,590 365,960,159 241,221,087 231,611,030
China 198,523,294 237,838,727 274,815,603 323,287,569 345,803,053 315,648,144 332,209,882 218,848,361 211,494,398
France 1,365,063 1,620,949 2,789,890 8,676,822 12,512,808 10,314,215 8,081,477 5,101,671 5,205,961
India 6,285,170 7,410,682 6,950,994 4,056,670 6,294,024 5,440,514 5,642,547 3,510,264 3,941,188
Hong Kong 2,485,166 3,950,108 6,583,775 10,664,409 7,930,046 5,824,419 8,109,692 5,771,114 3,797,618
Italy 3,492,198 3,670,609 3,885,172 4,317,243 3,278,060 2,893,605 3,067,160 1,978,042 2,550,944
Indonesia 5,580,667 4,471,049 2,489,556 1,819,660 1,792,713 1,524,432 1,624,499 1,201,565 947,231
Vietnam 66,051 212,714 583,608 882,714 705,767 547,934 695,569 469,080 447,709
Mexico 775,144 779,911 668,796 574,254 534,478 756,400 821,747 558,052 425,598
Taiwan 2,261,645 856,738 1,605,608 943,549 1,140,584 964,156 296,428 231,560 387,809
Spain 303,159 397,647 369,489 1,496,587 1,383,314 1,224,866 839,791 458,914 361,306
_CBI 927,053 1,687,668 1,324,767 1,343,676 925,204 865,725 759,048 561,224 335,981
_CAFTA 918,726 1,685,193 1,322,079 1,339,519 912,035 856,697 758,084 560,405 334,611
El Salvador 25,073 967,512 965,627 865,321 408,954 255,179 334,998 245,682 236,224
Philippines 1,325,189 902,602 1,404,927 1,142,158 1,425,948 808,448 603,569 462,345 229,302
Korea, South 3,104,387 2,184,645 1,071,227 916,414 784,807 476,601 176,673 123,874 192,018
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 618,598 609,542 594,711 586,909 674,150 483,875 305,835 202,632 160,916
Nepal 128,571 158,719 172,661 141,950 154,845 211,863 405,458 300,681 109,452
Colombia 556,792 554,265 539,668 522,390 576,224 383,626 232,810 161,665 109,389
Thailand 1,559,987 1,108,558 949,606 817,661 406,697 469,877 530,772 241,339 107,324
Cambodia 165,754 15,270 18,002 137,039 60,656 117,017 89,910 63,009 91,241
Malaysia 6,241 39,949 78,871 20,290 18,667 156,500 81,310 63,956 85,316
Macau 28,279 42,052 40,011 93,771 10,008 6,484 198,341 102,025 77,219
Japan 67,849 69,846 30,988 55,597 61,945 69,493 109,548 84,151 71,913
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel.