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Product: Backpacks (MMF)
Data in NO
Country 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 YTD 9/2008 YTD 9/2009
World 57,787,630 70,435,375 75,998,097 84,239,689 95,383,213 104,948,680 99,078,008 83,570,751 72,788,858
China 37,902,960 57,198,644 66,872,706 75,721,934 86,960,928 95,815,340 93,449,613 78,847,772 66,716,122
Vietnam 1,917,578 2,496,145 2,880,477 3,148,074 2,962,186 3,893,382 2,863,570 2,546,723 3,747,246
Philippines 4,220,111 2,251,185 2,110,840 1,162,518 1,177,342 751,045 688,538 500,541 608,918
Hong Kong 360,308 1,167,792 896,016 539,483 843,083 521,280 471,822 373,219 422,328
Indonesia 6,154,282 3,266,091 1,105,615 835,380 451,881 303,311 266,651 266,351 364,525
_CBI 171 24,177 12,693 172,932 161,345 368,274 320,014 253,545 314,575
_CAFTA 95 23,241 12,693 172,034 160,561 368,274 302,494 253,545 303,439
El Salvador 0 6,101 5,894 169,047 160,386 357,890 293,167 244,218 303,155
Thailand 1,882,189 1,445,317 1,099,146 1,647,964 2,097,543 2,494,200 459,640 382,602 221,899
Taiwan 832,878 252,176 142,319 180,941 214,024 159,029 90,892 67,574 163,646
Korea, South 320,105 706,629 199,948 131,393 118,697 100,659 69,838 61,187 53,706
Mexico 187,770 44,258 48,041 16,235 22,918 38,770 15,427 9,736 47,815
India 34,734 20,575 5,256 22,864 35,379 143,054 225,553 120,385 29,323
Bangladesh 919,349 187,639 55,871 30,302 50 6 0 0 25,874
France 11,890 7,151 15,532 149,436 3,601 9,128 42,545 30,660 18,922
Switzerland 6,763 8,085 33,431 1,140 1,272 547 2,184 2,155 16,018
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 26,572 24,114 31,130 52,128 43,294 28,127 6,249 5,839 12,271
Panama 73 144 0 898 275 0 17,520 0 11,136
Colombia 3,089 1,088 1,181 3,080 9,301 1,711 2,060 1,650 6,857
Ecuador 13,415 7,013 10,826 11,464 2,949 160 3,433 3,433 4,000
Pakistan 12,200 540 3,242 5,031 17,602 36,822 27,970 27,890 3,312
United Kingdom 1,690 3,530 2,671 2,449 2,126 9,312 2,279 1,802 3,164
Sweden 172 0 285 614 90 70 90 90 3,145
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel.