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| | September 12, 2008
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Product: Backpacks (MMF)
Data in $
Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 YTD 7/2007 YTD 7/2008
World 262,940,039 278,091,276 304,057,311 327,851,462 336,877,839 392,994,388 421,429,986 312,015,172 288,121,776
China 41,780,378 136,088,146 205,955,019 246,351,920 259,217,652 310,860,465 331,646,319 250,039,627 240,380,264
Vietnam 210,897 20,850,775 29,509,758 36,302,803 37,840,305 42,601,577 50,688,473 34,678,094 30,879,576
Philippines 57,045,458 41,295,990 24,965,006 22,038,623 14,412,588 16,504,286 15,318,759 9,388,676 8,094,931
Thailand 26,775,864 12,919,814 10,666,480 6,565,324 9,967,469 10,801,888 11,867,837 9,735,418 2,686,744
Indonesia 52,308,282 33,005,890 17,127,149 6,596,452 4,670,375 2,603,354 1,707,122 1,518,864 1,424,098
_CBI 161,848 1,270 57,347 53,843 849,028 849,911 2,119,621 1,329,305 1,390,912
_CAFTA 161,362 266 53,602 53,843 839,894 813,725 2,119,621 1,329,305 1,390,912
El Salvador 0 0 33,785 23,676 834,668 812,626 2,012,108 1,299,245 1,167,049
Canada 3,657,129 2,910,329 2,982,875 1,898,147 2,597,307 2,859,590 2,552,654 1,837,630 853,174
Taiwan 19,313,841 3,448,788 925,546 642,395 1,070,268 1,629,787 1,097,894 848,091 473,877
Korea, South 17,722,518 4,591,916 1,709,421 1,351,931 666,408 671,868 712,615 376,896 471,475
Israel 41,102 31,756 23,930 83,109 45,528 50,976 107,156 22,371 346,553
Hong Kong 74,442 1,336,739 2,297,104 2,289,793 1,907,396 2,015,492 1,714,207 918,527 332,022
Dominican Republic 161,087 0 19,560 13,888 2,329 0 3,998 3,998 135,779
Mexico 6,760,055 3,646,184 649,112 279,547 153,749 217,769 215,952 152,588 123,359
India 110,542 108,317 65,386 25,335 49,560 34,583 189,948 126,729 99,490
Italy 774,988 422,334 259,160 300,101 210,846 165,346 398,594 240,560 92,765
France 77,791 159,396 112,951 328,668 638,449 201,477 155,906 142,581 88,560
Costa Rica 0 0 0 10,294 2,095 1,099 93,274 23,761 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 50,762
Pakistan 11,785 3,973 3,775 5,386 15,168 47,916 68,905 22,601 37,685
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel.