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| | August 13, 2008
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Product: LUGGAGE/BRIEFCASES
Data in $
Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 YTD 6/2007 YTD 6/2008
World 726,041,671 650,292,534 634,430,434 726,006,987 738,561,419 830,428,771 882,007,711 393,865,379 417,210,800
China 253,074,660 357,478,687 447,984,366 534,614,294 581,629,378 682,733,803 728,501,733 322,397,245 343,978,164
Vietnam 17,378 4,396,922 13,073,283 20,450,186 20,790,644 20,409,188 23,245,068 11,379,233 12,597,844
Thailand 197,677,530 113,717,295 44,342,558 44,466,882 25,975,465 17,320,391 20,614,027 8,464,469 9,854,906
France 9,830,233 14,509,425 10,065,456 14,303,821 16,503,625 19,167,311 18,307,587 8,050,349 8,592,375
Italy 12,765,789 12,895,386 11,549,438 13,458,172 16,208,484 16,088,449 17,964,080 8,360,067 8,223,827
Canada 6,110,500 4,696,678 6,183,924 6,365,116 7,234,906 9,323,006 9,151,521 5,235,491 5,256,447
India 10,154,937 11,649,785 9,180,221 8,197,314 9,955,350 9,686,747 10,784,583 5,302,485 4,949,968
Philippines 97,587,575 45,623,639 29,303,114 29,190,154 18,303,057 15,293,260 7,548,012 3,919,803 3,961,694
Hong Kong 5,266,624 5,949,446 10,513,851 10,597,100 11,797,888 7,345,985 7,154,120 2,619,424 3,502,677
Germany 2,089,186 2,510,418 2,832,781 3,129,288 4,044,292 4,291,804 4,431,256 2,119,987 2,951,146
United Kingdom 1,754,224 1,642,148 1,674,203 1,739,145 1,922,834 2,289,421 4,074,029 1,903,513 2,147,646
Taiwan 16,311,943 9,341,879 9,176,438 6,795,597 3,859,170 4,782,211 4,766,646 1,915,980 1,486,777
_CBI 17,426,543 10,162,143 3,792,931 5,975,081 5,953,002 7,679,886 7,640,666 4,165,380 1,264,638
_CAFTA 17,417,452 10,158,199 3,785,835 5,954,083 5,909,912 7,673,026 7,614,863 4,156,475 1,263,162
Mexico 23,499,719 24,793,296 18,413,291 12,428,526 2,902,275 1,481,848 1,729,866 690,828 1,191,387
Spain 1,445,414 1,216,314 685,957 1,127,997 1,399,183 1,364,100 2,451,393 920,466 1,122,105
Czech Republic 82,227 102,199 92,896 123,895 431,540 817,036 2,206,024 880,428 995,520
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 3,184,460 3,118,769 3,933,162 4,630,048 3,595,487 3,782,931 2,751,082 1,427,251 936,371
Colombia 3,124,533 2,913,894 3,797,506 4,570,090 3,468,201 3,563,263 2,453,563 1,341,363 875,813
Switzerland 606,249 409,690 463,319 516,300 858,799 958,695 711,470 408,596 737,422
Indonesia 13,241,299 6,025,515 2,232,504 1,078,041 435,205 334,192 696,829 356,706 527,756
El Salvador 1,853 999 20,670 6,527 410,596 262,046 477,041 231,115 490,258
Dominican Republic 17,350,409 10,104,628 3,713,024 4,989,650 4,015,826 3,199,006 4,825,130 2,333,198 477,148
Hungary 16,751 17,376 176,019 283,433 8,238 357,271 24,240 3,155 448,830
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel.