Exhibit 8: U.S. General Imports of Merchandise Market/World Area by Country of Origin Customs Value Feb 2005 Country of Origin Total W O R L D T O T A L 122,751.67 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 4,155.21 Algeria 689.48 Angola 414.05 Benin 0.04 Botswana 7.92 British Indian Ocean Terr (-) Burkina 0.15 Burundi 0.08 Cameroon 20.45 Cape Verde (-) Central African Republic 0.72 Chad 104.19 Comoros 0.10 Congo (Brazzaville) 108.14 Congo (Kinshasa) 34.51 Cote d'Ivoire 97.98 Djibouti 0.14 Egypt 148.80 Equatorial Guinea 136.36 Eritrea 0.03 Ethiopia 2.45 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) Gabon 197.58 Gambia 0.02 Ghana 5.16 Guinea 5.28 Guinea-Bissau (-) Kenya 21.69 Lesotho 37.03 Liberia 6.44 Madagascar 20.30 Malawi 7.02 Mali 0.07 Mauritania 0.09 Mauritius 20.47 Morocco 34.94 Mozambique 0.54 Namibia 5.95 Niger 0.19 Nigeria 1,529.36 Reunion 0.40 Rwanda 0.89 Sao Tome and Principe 0.08 Senegal 0.11 Seychelles 0.27 Sierra Leone 0.54 Somalia (-) South Africa 442.53 St Helena 0.80 Sudan (-) Swaziland 18.46 Tanzania 2.70 Togo 0.03 Tunisia 11.95 Uganda 1.23 Western Sahara (-) Zambia 4.09 Zimbabwe 13.41 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 47,581.51 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 12,939.60 Bhutan (-) Brunei 29.28 Burma (Myanmar) 0.03 Cambodia 128.31 Hong Kong 554.28 Indonesia 912.96 Korea, South 3,429.38 Laos 0.38 Macao 79.00 Malaysia 2,108.18 Maldives 1.05 Philippines 682.68 Singapore 1,130.08 Taiwan 2,545.38 Thailand 1,338.61 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 10,976.60 Japan 10,976.60 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 4,212.36 Bahrain 31.53 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel (-) Iran 13.40 Iraq 575.56 Israel 1,200.84 Jordan 80.78 Kuwait 182.86 Lebanon 6.70 Oman 112.01 Qatar 30.77 Republic of Yemen 4.62 Saudi Arabia 1,851.16 Syria 37.48 United Arab Emirates 84.57 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.08 MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 17,486.69 China 16,953.62 Mongolia 9.23 North Korea (-) Vietnam 523.84 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 1,966.26 Afghanistan 0.88 Bangladesh 193.89 India 1,344.72 Nepal 8.24 Pakistan 242.16 Sri Lanka 176.37 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 686.06 Australia 429.34 Christmas Island 0.08 Cocos (Keeling) Island 0.38 Cook Islands 0.19 Fedrated States of Micronesia 0.79 Fiji 10.94 French Polynesia 3.51 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) Kiribati 0.04 Marshall Islands 3.09 Nauru 0.01 New Caledonia 1.57 New Zealand 230.49 Niue (-) Norfolk Island (-) Palau 0.01 Papua New Guinea 4.39 Pitcairn Island (-) Solomon Islands 0.16 Tokelau 0.19 Tonga 0.29 Tuvalu (-) Vanuatu 0.11 Wallis and Futuna (-) Western Samoa 0.48 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 26,919.14 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 3,474.28 Albania 0.56 Andorra 0.11 Armenia 2.28 Azerbaijan 0.71 Belarus 23.01 Bosnia-Hercegovina 0.98 Bulgaria 34.34 Croatia 28.06 Faroe Islands 0.61 Georgia 0.61 Gibraltar 0.20 Iceland 18.25 Kazakhstan 179.49 Kyrgyzstan 0.98 Liechtenstein 21.19 Macedonia (Skopje) 6.21 Moldova 3.89 Monaco 1.03 Norway 357.64 Romania 54.47 Russia 1,183.43 San Marino 0.17 Serbia and Montenegro 4.99 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) Switzerland 1,059.07 Tajikistan 0.39 Turkey 411.22 Turkmenistan 4.38 Ukraine 73.29 Uzbekistan 2.72 Vatican City (-) MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 23,444.86 Austria 422.34 Belgium 953.55 Cyprus 2.57 Czech Republic 155.25 Denmark 345.37 Estonia 9.78 Federal Republic of Germany 6,366.72 Finland 330.07 France 2,597.97 Greece 58.40 Hungary 184.07 Ireland 2,684.97 Italy 2,265.05 Latvia 20.08 Lithuania 86.07 Luxembourg 24.86 Malta 23.90 Netherlands 961.80 Poland 138.62 Portugal 198.79 Slovakia 40.74 Slovenia 35.52 Spain 696.42 Sweden 1,151.41 United Kingdom 3,690.54 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 43,289.81 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 21,897.42 Canada 21,897.42 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 1,065.95 Costa Rica 254.15 El Salvador 154.26 Guatemala 262.52 Honduras 302.66 Nicaragua 92.36 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 19,039.99 Argentina 316.84 Bolivia 20.02 Brazil 1,750.95 Chile 548.03 Colombia 587.17 Ecuador 459.54 Mexico 12,643.92 Paraguay 2.59 Peru 397.59 Uruguay 52.15 Venezuela 2,261.19 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 416.89 Cuba (-) Dominican Republic 364.85 Haiti 30.61 Panama 21.43 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 869.56 Anguilla 0.18 Antigua and Barbuda 0.15 Aruba 191.47 Bahamas 70.66 Barbados 2.89 Belize 13.84 Bermuda 0.80 British Virgin Islands 1.55 Cayman Islands 0.70 Dominica 0.18 Falkland Islands 2.23 French Guiana 0.03 Greenland 0.46 Grenada 0.42 Guadeloupe 0.33 Guyana 7.71 Jamaica 21.83 Martinique 0.05 Montserrat 0.01 Netherlands Antilles 54.44 St Kitts and Nevis 3.90 St Lucia 1.24 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.02 St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.12 Suriname 11.12 Trinidad and Tobago 483.11 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.12 _________________ Customs Value Jan - Feb 2005 Country of Origin Total Value Vessel Value Air Value W O R L D T O T A L 245,494.65 123,581.49 52,781.52 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 8,257.95 7,587.12 550.35 Algeria 1,218.34 1,217.85 0.46 Angola 863.81 831.64 11.04 Benin 0.09 0.03 0.04 Botswana 16.65 3.26 13.34 British Indian Ocean Terr (-) (-) (-) Burkina 0.16 0.12 0.02 Burundi 0.20 0.19 0.01 Cameroon 56.03 54.89 0.23 Cape Verde 0.30 0.10 0.21 Central African Republic 1.00 0.18 0.74 Chad 170.74 170.17 0.02 Comoros 0.16 0.14 (-) Congo (Brazzaville) 205.57 203.32 2.08 Congo (Kinshasa) 40.09 15.37 24.68 Cote d'Ivoire 210.68 208.63 0.13 Djibouti 0.21 0.19 0.02 Egypt 279.58 251.51 23.18 Equatorial Guinea 220.14 219.10 0.28 Eritrea 0.16 0.11 0.05 Ethiopia 4.54 4.19 0.17 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) (-) (-) Gabon 454.87 454.55 0.03 Gambia 0.02 (-) 0.02 Ghana 13.70 11.96 1.07 Guinea 10.80 10.23 0.50 Guinea-Bissau (-) (-) (-) Kenya 59.78 49.04 9.92 Lesotho 80.18 70.25 9.86 Liberia 14.05 13.89 0.10 Madagascar 51.67 46.20 5.19 Malawi 14.95 14.91 0.03 Mali 0.22 0.02 0.15 Mauritania 0.23 0.21 (-) Mauritius 42.93 33.61 9.23 Morocco 74.76 50.77 23.05 Mozambique 1.00 0.61 0.38 Namibia 19.80 10.36 2.64 Niger 1.17 0.07 0.32 Nigeria 3,142.07 3,073.41 3.29 Reunion 1.55 1.54 (-) Rwanda 1.37 1.34 0.02 Sao Tome and Principe 0.08 (-) 0.08 Senegal 0.38 0.16 0.18 Seychelles 0.48 0.12 0.26 Sierra Leone 0.92 0.09 0.65 Somalia (-) (-) (-) South Africa 874.87 471.87 391.94 St Helena 0.90 0.88 0.02 Sudan 0.72 0.72 (-) Swaziland 44.79 43.13 1.49 Tanzania 5.73 4.26 0.88 Togo 0.06 0.01 0.05 Tunisia 21.28 10.09 10.11 Uganda 2.75 2.14 0.59 Western Sahara (-) (-) (-) Zambia 9.61 9.47 0.13 Zimbabwe 21.81 20.22 1.47 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 97,054.33 66,994.49 27,264.94 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 27,558.66 15,361.30 11,482.71 Bhutan 0.37 0.36 0.01 Brunei 47.94 45.65 2.28 Burma (Myanmar) 0.05 (-) 0.05 Cambodia 266.98 238.58 27.33 Hong Kong 1,306.86 809.52 448.18 Indonesia 1,806.60 1,540.08 245.57 Korea, South 7,532.95 4,776.62 2,616.47 Laos 0.41 0.26 0.15 Macao 190.08 144.43 43.76 Malaysia 4,432.27 1,447.82 2,871.64 Maldives 4.73 4.15 0.58 Philippines 1,340.40 679.86 624.27 Singapore 2,325.87 492.14 1,740.41 Taiwan 5,512.17 3,438.14 1,890.05 Thailand 2,790.98 1,743.69 971.96 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 21,183.97 15,267.30 5,387.44 Japan 21,183.97 15,267.30 5,387.44 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 8,433.62 6,036.64 2,183.32 Bahrain 79.35 60.06 19.15 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel (-) (-) (-) Iran 27.87 11.58 15.74 Iraq 1,088.08 1,023.25 51.26 Israel 2,585.49 458.19 1,970.13 Jordan 197.38 152.13 43.80 Kuwait 410.84 393.13 15.12 Lebanon 12.91 6.69 4.64 Oman 159.48 151.97 5.22 Qatar 66.99 47.61 3.55 Republic of Yemen 36.97 36.72 0.16 Saudi Arabia 3,535.51 3,511.02 8.83 Syria 57.72 55.99 0.80 United Arab Emirates 174.91 128.18 44.92 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.12 0.12 (-) MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 35,902.80 27,691.88 6,936.15 China 34,817.32 26,684.08 6,872.30 Mongolia 23.22 21.68 1.47 North Korea (-) (-) (-) Vietnam 1,062.26 986.12 62.38 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 3,975.28 2,637.37 1,275.32 Afghanistan 2.53 0.07 2.36 Bangladesh 388.87 350.93 33.67 India 2,742.17 1,604.05 1,092.18 Nepal 18.01 11.17 6.35 Pakistan 448.73 393.90 51.36 Sri Lanka 374.97 277.25 89.40 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 1,482.01 1,124.01 281.11 Australia 956.13 677.16 217.63 Christmas Island 0.09 0.04 0.01 Cocos (Keeling) Island 0.39 0.16 (-) Cook Islands 0.28 0.01 0.24 Fedrated States of Micronesia 1.10 1.07 0.02 Fiji 22.96 20.05 1.54 French Polynesia 8.17 1.82 4.54 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) (-) (-) Kiribati 0.08 (-) 0.08 Marshall Islands 4.26 2.08 1.49 Nauru 0.01 (-) (-) New Caledonia 3.13 2.99 0.14 New Zealand 474.12 410.09 53.32 Niue (-) (-) (-) Norfolk Island 0.01 (-) 0.01 Palau 0.12 0.10 0.02 Papua New Guinea 8.31 7.32 0.89 Pitcairn Island 0.11 0.10 (-) Solomon Islands 0.24 0.09 0.14 Tokelau 0.89 0.40 0.48 Tonga 0.55 0.03 0.30 Tuvalu (-) (-) (-) Vanuatu 0.24 0.07 0.16 Wallis and Futuna (-) (-) (-) Western Samoa 0.82 0.43 0.10 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 52,397.82 26,442.66 21,371.24 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 6,805.73 4,567.52 1,968.11 Albania 1.26 1.12 0.13 Andorra 0.14 (-) 0.14 Armenia 3.76 0.90 2.14 Azerbaijan 1.30 0.42 0.81 Belarus 62.44 60.35 1.20 Bosnia-Hercegovina 2.89 2.17 0.64 Bulgaria 67.05 54.03 9.29 Croatia 54.05 14.08 38.90 Faroe Islands 1.40 1.00 0.13 Georgia 1.31 0.86 0.30 Gibraltar 1.41 0.17 1.01 Iceland 37.30 24.94 11.63 Kazakhstan 238.50 227.36 8.10 Kyrgyzstan 1.55 1.50 (-) Liechtenstein 41.58 9.29 8.55 Macedonia (Skopje) 10.71 9.77 0.92 Moldova 7.03 4.88 2.13 Monaco 2.34 1.59 0.57 Norway 790.50 663.60 107.59 Romania 114.49 80.03 26.28 Russia 2,298.54 2,134.69 131.03 San Marino 0.19 0.15 0.04 Serbia and Montenegro 10.29 8.74 0.53 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) (-) (-) Switzerland 2,028.79 425.63 1,457.55 Tajikistan 29.43 29.31 0.02 Turkey 836.40 660.86 151.67 Turkmenistan 8.22 7.40 0.81 Ukraine 140.03 131.78 4.11 Uzbekistan 12.81 10.90 1.88 Vatican City 0.02 (-) 0.01 MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 45,592.09 21,875.14 19,403.13 Austria 843.70 469.44 294.24 Belgium 1,932.02 966.06 845.75 Cyprus 4.97 2.33 2.59 Czech Republic 313.14 146.91 107.90 Denmark 691.57 264.04 353.88 Estonia 30.05 22.95 3.07 Federal Republic of Germany 12,434.84 7,235.16 3,666.85 Finland 614.92 396.93 167.65 France 5,173.63 1,895.38 2,543.24 Greece 135.20 116.02 16.40 Hungary 381.40 104.93 248.10 Ireland 4,649.54 591.32 3,978.53 Italy 4,625.05 2,495.11 1,706.74 Latvia 43.96 38.20 1.28 Lithuania 130.88 124.64 3.87 Luxembourg 47.49 35.58 8.41 Malta 49.59 5.51 41.96 Netherlands 2,004.02 1,162.36 691.47 Poland 301.22 207.06 59.18 Portugal 395.37 177.13 180.56 Slovakia 74.33 58.11 10.40 Slovenia 68.51 40.59 24.57 Spain 1,321.32 761.27 482.56 Sweden 2,071.08 1,069.80 844.49 United Kingdom 7,254.29 3,488.31 3,119.44 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 86,178.84 21,309.51 3,313.88 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 43,623.23 1,760.83 1,187.87 Canada 43,623.23 1,760.83 1,187.87 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 2,009.61 1,706.59 254.87 Costa Rica 483.09 307.26 148.45 El Salvador 288.45 261.64 26.05 Guatemala 506.84 469.63 30.68 Honduras 549.67 515.93 31.52 Nicaragua 181.56 152.13 18.17 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 38,100.13 15,623.05 1,725.47 Argentina 715.14 659.22 45.88 Bolivia 36.47 23.05 13.30 Brazil 3,745.09 3,039.52 347.48 Chile 1,216.26 1,065.92 134.67 Colombia 1,215.53 919.23 226.22 Ecuador 891.51 825.44 50.76 Mexico 24,749.54 3,909.05 575.04 Paraguay 7.93 6.87 0.91 Peru 730.80 416.10 308.86 Uruguay 105.98 96.07 9.23 Venezuela 4,685.88 4,662.58 13.12 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 694.12 563.86 111.96 Cuba (-) (-) (-) Dominican Republic 600.74 485.08 101.03 Haiti 51.67 49.79 1.52 Panama 41.71 28.99 9.41 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 1,751.75 1,655.18 33.71 Anguilla 0.22 0.17 0.05 Antigua and Barbuda 0.60 0.45 0.12 Aruba 348.27 345.68 0.37 Bahamas 123.03 121.39 0.71 Barbados 5.21 1.90 2.89 Belize 19.01 18.16 0.64 Bermuda 3.15 0.69 2.05 British Virgin Islands 17.50 15.76 0.38 Cayman Islands 1.62 0.91 0.69 Dominica 0.47 0.31 0.03 Falkland Islands 2.57 2.54 0.02 French Guiana 0.03 (-) 0.03 Greenland 0.87 0.87 (-) Grenada 0.79 0.31 0.31 Guadeloupe 0.37 0.12 0.23 Guyana 16.65 13.74 1.06 Jamaica 49.24 40.46 3.80 Martinique 0.06 0.04 0.01 Montserrat 0.02 (-) 0.01 Netherlands Antilles 105.28 54.64 6.31 St Kitts and Nevis 7.42 1.09 6.10 St Lucia 2.14 0.29 1.72 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 (-) 0.02 St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.34 0.01 0.16 Suriname 17.33 16.64 0.67 Trinidad and Tobago 1,028.87 1,018.60 5.13 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.63 0.41 0.20 _________________ Note: These data are presented on a customs & C.I.F. value basis in millions of dollars. For information on data sources, nonsampling errors and definitions, see the Information on the Collection and Publication of Trade Statistics on page 35 of the FT900 release or at www.census.gov/foreign-trade/ft920. _________________ SOURCE: Report FT920, Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade Division, January 2005. For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.