Exhibit 8: U.S. General Imports of Merchandise Market/World Area by Country of Origin Customs Value Mar 2005 Country of Origin Total W O R L D T O T A L 135,355.22 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 4,719.46 Algeria 609.95 Angola 817.23 Benin (-) Botswana 12.88 British Indian Ocean Territories (-) Burkina 0.05 Burundi (-) Cameroon 6.05 Cape Verde 0.37 Central African Republic 0.82 Chad 70.27 Comoros 0.07 Congo (Brazzaville) 35.12 Congo (Kinshasa) 71.05 Cote d'Ivoire 122.21 Djibouti 0.17 Egypt 116.65 Equatorial Guinea 159.51 Eritrea (-) Ethiopia 5.09 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) Gabon 271.00 Gambia 0.01 Ghana 18.37 Guinea 4.27 Guinea-Bissau 0.05 Kenya 33.22 Lesotho 27.06 Liberia 10.19 Madagascar 18.71 Malawi 13.52 Mali 0.33 Mauritania 0.09 Mauritius 14.78 Morocco 28.14 Mozambique 0.52 Namibia 8.33 Niger 0.17 Nigeria 1,754.37 Reunion 0.01 Rwanda 0.66 Sao Tome and Principe 0.02 Senegal 0.11 Seychelles 0.19 Sierra Leone 0.45 Somalia 0.08 South Africa 448.08 St Helena 0.21 Sudan 0.44 Swaziland 13.56 Tanzania 3.78 Togo 0.06 Tunisia 10.17 Uganda 2.06 Western Sahara (-) Zambia 0.78 Zimbabwe 8.18 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 51,095.26 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 14,406.60 Bhutan 0.03 Brunei 54.88 Burma (Myanmar) (-) Cambodia 130.38 Hong Kong 573.91 Indonesia 1,053.95 Korea, South 3,687.98 Laos 0.27 Macao 63.95 Malaysia 2,451.28 Maldives 0.08 Philippines 791.62 Singapore 1,168.22 Taiwan 2,787.42 Thailand 1,642.63 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 12,804.82 Japan 12,804.82 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 4,922.13 Bahrain 33.68 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel (-) Iran 12.18 Iraq 711.65 Israel 1,484.67 Jordan 116.81 Kuwait 300.23 Lebanon 5.95 Oman 14.37 Qatar 39.09 Republic of Yemen 54.35 Saudi Arabia 2,035.26 Syria 23.69 United Arab Emirates 90.15 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.05 MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 16,658.51 China 16,209.51 Mongolia 8.20 North Korea (-) Vietnam 440.80 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 2,303.20 Afghanistan 0.42 Bangladesh 217.54 India 1,603.03 Nepal 11.11 Pakistan 270.23 Sri Lanka 200.87 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 951.06 Australia 591.83 Christmas Island 0.09 Cocos (Keeling) Island (-) Cook Islands 0.14 Federated States of Micronesia 0.04 Fiji 13.30 French Polynesia 4.72 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) Kiribati 0.10 Marshall Islands 1.93 Nauru 0.02 New Caledonia 1.64 New Zealand 334.33 Niue (-) Norfolk Island 0.01 Palau 0.01 Papua New Guinea 1.50 Pitcairn Island (-) Solomon Islands 0.11 Tokelau 0.24 Tonga 0.43 Tuvalu (-) Vanuatu 0.05 Wallis and Futuna (-) Western Samoa 0.57 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 30,338.85 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 4,148.60 Albania 0.53 Andorra 0.04 Armenia 3.47 Azerbaijan 0.72 Belarus 67.79 Bosnia-Hercegovina 1.32 Bulgaria 45.04 Croatia 29.00 Faroe Islands 0.77 Georgia 21.62 Gibraltar 0.15 Iceland 37.68 Kazakhstan 16.47 Kyrgyzstan 0.19 Liechtenstein 26.66 Macedonia (Skopje) 3.36 Moldova 2.97 Monaco 1.45 Norway 746.20 Romania 95.45 Russia 1,375.28 San Marino 0.36 Serbia and Montenegro 4.04 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) Switzerland 1,131.28 Tajikistan 0.12 Turkey 409.43 Turkmenistan 4.05 Ukraine 104.93 Uzbekistan 18.21 Vatican City 0.02 MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 26,190.25 Austria 518.62 Belgium 1,053.24 Cyprus 3.28 Czech Republic 180.20 Denmark 410.16 Estonia 25.89 Federal Republic of Germany 7,422.94 Finland 449.09 France 2,848.94 Greece 76.06 Hungary 207.66 Ireland 2,172.16 Italy 2,661.82 Latvia 23.64 Lithuania 30.45 Luxembourg 34.29 Malta 25.99 Netherlands 1,162.36 Poland 165.26 Portugal 215.30 Slovakia 56.92 Slovenia 41.92 Spain 766.58 Sweden 1,314.45 United Kingdom 4,323.03 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 48,186.87 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 23,915.88 Canada 23,915.88 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 1,284.40 Costa Rica 333.49 El Salvador 187.17 Guatemala 312.08 Honduras 341.72 Nicaragua 109.94 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 21,478.65 Argentina 336.55 Bolivia 23.08 Brazil 1,969.40 Chile 522.77 Colombia 710.58 Ecuador 459.08 Mexico 14,133.76 Paraguay 3.62 Peru 395.80 Uruguay 78.68 Venezuela 2,845.33 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 501.84 Cuba (-) Dominican Republic 426.75 Haiti 46.09 Panama 29.00 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 1,006.10 Anguilla 0.01 Antigua and Barbuda 0.62 Aruba 218.29 Bahamas 54.55 Barbados 3.04 Belize 14.80 Bermuda 0.94 British Virgin Islands 1.28 Cayman Islands 1.26 Dominica 0.40 Falkland Islands 0.09 French Guiana (-) Greenland 0.50 Grenada 0.55 Guadeloupe 0.12 Guyana 9.68 Jamaica 40.62 Martinique 0.15 Montserrat 0.12 Netherlands Antilles 47.91 St Kitts and Nevis 4.34 St Lucia 1.26 St Pierre and Miquelon (-) St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.10 Suriname 16.75 Trinidad and Tobago 587.63 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.09 _________________ Customs Value Jan - Mar 2005 Country of Origin Total Value Vessel Value Air Value W O R L D T O T A L 380,849.91 190,493.62 83,207.91 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 12,977.38 11,907.27 901.80 Algeria 1,828.29 1,827.62 0.64 Angola 1,681.04 1,645.87 14.03 Benin 0.09 0.03 0.04 Botswana 29.53 4.54 24.89 British Indian Ocean Territories (-) (-) (-) Burkina 0.21 0.16 0.02 Burundi 0.21 0.19 0.02 Cameroon 62.08 60.70 0.42 Cape Verde 0.67 0.45 0.21 Central African Republic 1.81 0.22 1.49 Chad 241.01 240.03 0.02 Comoros 0.24 0.21 (-) Congo (Brazzaville) 240.69 237.89 2.58 Congo (Kinshasa) 111.13 81.28 29.79 Cote d'Ivoire 332.90 329.68 0.46 Djibouti 0.37 0.35 0.02 Egypt 396.23 337.37 47.58 Equatorial Guinea 379.65 378.08 0.29 Eritrea 0.16 0.11 0.05 Ethiopia 9.63 8.80 0.65 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) (-) (-) Gabon 725.87 724.50 0.93 Gambia 0.03 0.01 0.02 Ghana 32.07 26.66 4.53 Guinea 15.07 13.96 1.02 Guinea-Bissau 0.05 0.05 (-) Kenya 92.99 78.90 12.99 Lesotho 107.25 94.08 12.15 Liberia 24.24 24.08 0.10 Madagascar 70.38 62.08 7.90 Malawi 28.46 28.36 0.09 Mali 0.55 0.03 0.43 Mauritania 0.31 0.29 0.02 Mauritius 57.70 41.67 15.88 Morocco 102.91 64.12 37.43 Mozambique 1.52 0.93 0.59 Namibia 28.13 15.87 5.38 Niger 1.34 0.18 0.37 Nigeria 4,896.44 4,799.50 3.88 Reunion 1.56 1.54 (-) Rwanda 2.03 1.94 0.07 Sao Tome and Principe 0.10 (-) 0.10 Senegal 0.49 0.19 0.24 Seychelles 0.67 0.13 0.41 Sierra Leone 1.37 0.14 0.90 Somalia 0.08 (-) 0.08 South Africa 1,322.95 653.96 649.47 St Helena 1.10 0.88 0.22 Sudan 1.16 1.16 (-) Swaziland 58.35 56.10 1.97 Tanzania 9.51 6.23 2.48 Togo 0.12 0.02 0.10 Tunisia 31.45 14.86 15.23 Uganda 4.81 3.34 1.41 Western Sahara (-) (-) (-) Zambia 10.39 10.19 0.19 Zimbabwe 29.99 27.74 2.02 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 148,149.62 100,596.24 43,311.44 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 41,965.28 22,811.07 18,070.39 Bhutan 0.40 0.39 0.01 Brunei 102.81 98.53 4.05 Burma (Myanmar) 0.05 (-) 0.05 Cambodia 397.37 355.02 40.25 Hong Kong 1,880.78 1,092.22 696.66 Indonesia 2,860.55 2,427.39 399.85 Korea, South 11,220.93 7,017.28 3,997.55 Laos 0.67 0.43 0.24 Macao 254.03 185.50 66.10 Malaysia 6,883.55 2,112.66 4,603.60 Maldives 4.82 4.18 0.63 Philippines 2,132.02 1,090.86 980.39 Singapore 3,494.09 723.59 2,634.41 Taiwan 8,299.59 5,033.17 2,990.47 Thailand 4,433.62 2,669.85 1,656.13 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 33,988.79 24,456.65 8,731.08 Japan 33,988.79 24,456.65 8,731.08 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 13,355.75 9,607.55 3,408.48 Bahrain 113.03 88.77 24.07 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel (-) (-) (-) Iran 40.05 15.67 23.48 Iraq 1,799.73 1,713.30 67.57 Israel 4,070.15 733.37 3,084.41 Jordan 314.18 243.62 68.87 Kuwait 711.07 682.07 26.39 Lebanon 18.87 10.65 5.85 Oman 173.85 159.26 9.11 Qatar 106.07 79.45 6.64 Republic of Yemen 91.33 90.98 0.24 Saudi Arabia 5,570.77 5,529.18 11.89 Syria 81.41 78.41 1.27 United Arab Emirates 265.06 182.64 78.69 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.18 0.18 (-) MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 52,561.32 39,552.06 11,087.31 China 51,026.84 38,148.61 10,977.55 Mongolia 31.42 28.93 2.36 North Korea (-) (-) (-) Vietnam 1,503.06 1,374.52 107.40 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 6,278.48 4,168.91 2,014.18 Afghanistan 2.95 0.08 2.70 Bangladesh 606.41 548.58 51.33 India 4,345.20 2,540.45 1,733.51 Nepal 29.12 17.44 11.06 Pakistan 718.96 636.07 76.30 Sri Lanka 575.84 426.29 139.28 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 2,433.11 1,852.42 467.83 Australia 1,547.97 1,095.81 362.91 Christmas Island 0.18 0.04 0.05 Cocos (Keeling) Island 0.40 0.16 (-) Cook Islands 0.42 0.01 0.37 Federated States of Micronesia 1.14 1.07 0.02 Fiji 36.26 31.82 2.30 French Polynesia 12.89 2.47 7.92 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) (-) (-) Kiribati 0.18 (-) 0.17 Marshall Islands 6.20 2.47 1.85 Nauru 0.03 (-) 0.03 New Caledonia 4.77 4.55 0.22 New Zealand 808.45 704.19 88.95 Niue (-) (-) (-) Norfolk Island 0.02 (-) 0.02 Palau 0.13 0.10 0.03 Papua New Guinea 9.81 8.23 1.19 Pitcairn Island 0.11 0.10 (-) Solomon Islands 0.35 0.09 0.24 Tokelau 1.13 0.50 0.60 Tonga 0.98 0.04 0.57 Tuvalu (-) (-) (-) Vanuatu 0.29 0.07 0.22 Wallis and Futuna (-) (-) (-) Western Samoa 1.40 0.70 0.17 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 82,736.64 42,396.85 33,224.00 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 10,954.29 7,452.73 3,089.80 Albania 1.79 1.54 0.24 Andorra 0.19 (-) 0.18 Armenia 7.23 1.54 4.51 Azerbaijan 2.02 0.50 1.45 Belarus 130.22 127.34 1.77 Bosnia-Hercegovina 4.21 3.19 0.94 Bulgaria 112.09 89.93 16.78 Croatia 83.05 20.90 60.68 Faroe Islands 2.17 1.66 0.15 Georgia 22.92 22.28 0.37 Gibraltar 1.56 0.31 1.01 Iceland 74.97 42.12 31.73 Kazakhstan 254.97 237.09 13.00 Kyrgyzstan 1.74 1.69 0.01 Liechtenstein 68.24 15.46 15.05 Macedonia (Skopje) 14.07 12.67 1.33 Moldova 10.00 6.74 3.24 Monaco 3.79 2.55 1.03 Norway 1,536.69 1,336.63 169.78 Romania 209.94 157.16 40.51 Russia 3,673.82 3,429.70 185.94 San Marino 0.55 0.38 0.06 Serbia and Montenegro 14.33 12.47 0.75 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) (-) (-) Switzerland 3,160.07 658.76 2,287.76 Tajikistan 29.54 29.32 0.13 Turkey 1,245.84 969.80 240.18 Turkmenistan 12.27 10.93 1.31 Ukraine 244.96 231.39 7.56 Uzbekistan 31.02 28.68 2.32 Vatican City 0.03 (-) 0.03 MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 71,782.35 34,944.12 30,134.20 Austria 1,362.31 757.37 479.73 Belgium 2,985.27 1,480.43 1,323.30 Cyprus 8.25 4.47 3.72 Czech Republic 493.34 235.04 174.26 Denmark 1,101.74 420.50 570.01 Estonia 55.94 44.49 5.30 Federal Republic of Germany 19,857.78 11,437.99 5,918.22 Finland 1,064.01 664.26 316.24 France 8,022.57 3,006.38 3,957.04 Greece 211.27 181.69 25.87 Hungary 589.05 163.25 380.23 Ireland 6,821.70 944.00 5,743.21 Italy 7,286.87 3,948.13 2,677.26 Latvia 67.59 58.30 1.78 Lithuania 161.33 151.51 6.03 Luxembourg 81.79 63.05 12.74 Malta 75.57 7.80 64.29 Netherlands 3,166.38 1,795.47 1,141.71 Poland 466.49 324.69 91.02 Portugal 610.67 276.43 280.03 Slovakia 131.25 103.29 18.15 Slovenia 110.43 62.25 42.62 Spain 2,087.90 1,176.14 791.88 Sweden 3,385.53 1,809.30 1,332.06 United Kingdom 11,577.32 5,827.89 4,777.50 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 134,365.74 33,553.42 5,302.84 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 67,539.11 2,716.96 1,913.94 Canada 67,539.11 2,716.96 1,913.94 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 3,294.01 2,809.87 405.66 Costa Rica 816.57 531.34 242.06 El Salvador 475.63 435.76 38.68 Guatemala 818.92 762.34 46.80 Honduras 891.39 838.82 49.07 Nicaragua 291.50 241.61 29.05 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 59,578.77 24,452.79 2,726.61 Argentina 1,051.69 968.51 70.18 Bolivia 59.56 36.85 22.52 Brazil 5,714.48 4,560.51 601.34 Chile 1,739.03 1,514.73 204.40 Colombia 1,926.11 1,486.62 335.71 Ecuador 1,350.59 1,251.92 74.48 Mexico 38,883.30 6,326.60 897.69 Paraguay 11.55 10.04 1.32 Peru 1,126.59 637.10 480.91 Uruguay 184.66 169.10 14.62 Venezuela 7,531.21 7,490.81 23.44 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 1,195.95 966.18 199.15 Cuba (-) (-) (-) Dominican Republic 1,027.49 822.35 181.37 Haiti 97.75 94.38 2.80 Panama 70.71 49.45 14.98 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 2,757.90 2,607.62 57.48 Anguilla 0.23 0.18 0.05 Antigua and Barbuda 1.22 0.53 0.42 Aruba 566.56 560.24 0.75 Bahamas 177.59 174.19 1.54 Barbados 8.25 3.02 4.68 Belize 33.81 32.64 0.81 Bermuda 4.09 1.00 2.62 British Virgin Islands 18.79 16.77 0.62 Cayman Islands 2.89 1.61 1.26 Dominica 0.88 0.51 0.21 Falkland Islands 2.66 2.63 0.02 French Guiana 0.03 (-) 0.03 Greenland 1.37 1.29 0.01 Grenada 1.34 0.39 0.68 Guadeloupe 0.49 0.14 0.31 Guyana 26.33 21.31 1.99 Jamaica 89.86 73.21 6.05 Martinique 0.21 0.05 0.15 Montserrat 0.14 0.03 0.09 Netherlands Antilles 153.19 82.13 11.19 St Kitts and Nevis 11.76 1.91 9.53 St Lucia 3.40 0.37 2.84 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 (-) 0.02 St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.44 0.02 0.19 Suriname 34.09 32.77 1.29 Trinidad and Tobago 1,616.50 1,599.61 9.50 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.72 1.07 0.63 _________________ 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, March 2005. For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.