Exhibit 8: U.S. General Imports of Merchandise Market/World Area by Country of Origin Customs Value July 2005 Country of Origin Total W O R L D T O T A L 136,072.03 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 5,343.27 Algeria 967.60 Angola 374.41 Benin 0.02 Botswana 25.37 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.01 Burkina 0.08 Burundi 2.08 Cameroon 26.92 Cape Verde 0.28 Central African Republic 1.21 Chad 169.42 Comoros (-) Congo (Brazzaville) 184.45 Congo (Kinshasa) 24.17 Cote d'Ivoire 90.37 Djibouti (-) Egypt 182.29 Equatorial Guinea 118.37 Eritrea 0.18 Ethiopia 8.11 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) Gabon 233.81 Gambia 0.04 Ghana 15.70 Guinea 5.91 Guinea-Bissau (-) Kenya 25.60 Lesotho 32.65 Liberia 1.91 Madagascar 29.49 Malawi 5.88 Mali 0.25 Mauritania 0.09 Mauritius 16.32 Morocco 36.24 Mozambique 0.66 Namibia 5.64 Niger 15.80 Nigeria 2,181.46 Reunion 1.05 Rwanda 0.33 Sao Tome and Principe (-) Senegal 0.61 Seychelles 0.37 Sierra Leone 1.79 Somalia 0.11 South Africa 507.84 St Helena 0.02 Sudan 1.50 Swaziland 15.65 Tanzania 2.63 Togo 1.02 Tunisia 20.14 Uganda 2.52 Western Sahara (-) Zambia 1.27 Zimbabwe 3.63 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 56,344.22 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 15,156.82 Bhutan (-) Brunei 47.38 Burma (Myanmar) (-) Cambodia 158.38 Hong Kong 778.74 Indonesia 1,013.74 Korea, South 3,367.92 Laos 0.24 Macao 111.89 Malaysia 3,103.04 Maldives 0.05 Philippines 788.14 Singapore 1,227.34 Taiwan 2,915.63 Thailand 1,644.33 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 11,362.75 Japan 11,362.75 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 5,643.52 Bahrain 29.75 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel 0.05 Iran 12.98 Iraq 803.94 Israel 1,462.60 Jordan 104.88 Kuwait 361.18 Lebanon 6.58 Oman 55.68 Qatar 12.73 Republic of Yemen 0.48 Saudi Arabia 2,635.60 Syria 55.00 United Arab Emirates 102.02 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.05 MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 21,899.35 China 21,282.52 Mongolia 13.38 North Korea (-) Vietnam 603.45 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 2,281.78 Afghanistan 18.05 Bangladesh 254.71 India 1,516.59 Nepal 7.97 Pakistan 293.01 Sri Lanka 191.45 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 1,073.57 Australia 796.53 Christmas Island 0.02 Cocos (Keeling) Island (-) Cook Islands 0.27 Federated States of Micronesia 0.18 Fiji 11.55 French Polynesia 3.64 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) Kiribati 0.10 Marshall Islands 1.02 Nauru (-) New Caledonia 1.71 New Zealand 252.15 Niue 0.08 Norfolk Island 0.01 Palau 0.02 Papua New Guinea 4.36 Pitcairn Island (-) Solomon Islands 0.05 Tokelau 0.67 Tonga 0.35 Tuvalu (-) Vanuatu 0.17 Wallis and Futuna (-) Western Samoa 0.69 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 29,365.51 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 3,854.11 Albania 0.65 Andorra 0.01 Armenia 4.15 Azerbaijan 0.36 Belarus 34.90 Bosnia-Hercegovina 1.52 Bulgaria 61.32 Croatia 29.54 Faroe Islands 0.02 Georgia 19.50 Gibraltar 2.07 Iceland 19.43 Kazakhstan 58.00 Kyrgyzstan 0.05 Liechtenstein 24.62 Macedonia (Skopje) 6.23 Moldova 3.44 Monaco 2.34 Norway 576.00 Romania 110.26 Russia 1,292.06 San Marino 0.07 Serbia and Montenegro 5.20 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) Switzerland 1,030.95 Tajikistan 24.35 Turkey 407.09 Turkmenistan 37.40 Ukraine 100.45 Uzbekistan 2.08 Vatican City 0.05 MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 25,511.40 Austria 505.54 Belgium 1,229.76 Cyprus 2.12 Czech Republic 188.12 Denmark 412.19 Estonia 111.53 Federal Republic of Germany 7,209.22 Finland 299.06 France 2,697.64 Greece 68.58 Hungary 197.73 Ireland 2,025.29 Italy 2,879.89 Latvia 13.87 Lithuania 27.80 Luxembourg 30.68 Malta 18.95 Netherlands 1,223.62 Poland 172.71 Portugal 213.34 Slovakia 136.04 Slovenia 31.89 Spain 708.26 Sweden 1,082.96 United Kingdom 4,024.61 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 43,796.36 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 20,607.08 Canada 20,607.08 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 1,069.74 Costa Rica 259.88 El Salvador 165.56 Guatemala 258.21 Honduras 291.98 Nicaragua 94.11 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 20,529.18 Argentina 341.97 Bolivia 32.49 Brazil 2,190.48 Chile 459.49 Colombia 648.25 Ecuador 463.77 Mexico 12,741.62 Paraguay 4.09 Peru 405.84 Uruguay 50.40 Venezuela 3,190.78 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 445.36 Cuba (-) Dominican Republic 374.20 Haiti 42.39 Panama 28.77 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 1,145.00 Anguilla 0.31 Antigua and Barbuda 0.30 Aruba 245.65 Bahamas 53.83 Barbados 2.15 Belize 7.58 Bermuda 25.76 British Virgin Islands 2.32 Cayman Islands 8.08 Dominica 0.12 Falkland Islands 2.29 French Guiana (-) Greenland 3.23 Grenada 0.41 Guadeloupe 0.59 Guyana 12.34 Jamaica 37.30 Martinique 0.13 Montserrat 0.04 Netherlands Antilles 117.81 St Kitts and Nevis 4.01 St Lucia 16.92 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.09 St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.05 Suriname 15.74 Trinidad and Tobago 587.87 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.08 _________________ Customs Value Jan - July 2005 Country of Origin Total Value Vessel Value Air Value W O R L D T O T A L 929,538.09 475,377.21 201,185.42 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 32,825.52 30,285.71 2,277.08 Algeria 5,251.83 5,250.31 1.34 Angola 3,761.75 3,697.09 43.52 Benin 0.47 0.07 0.37 Botswana 87.15 11.26 75.61 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.20 0.10 0.09 Burkina 0.59 0.32 0.24 Burundi 3.00 2.91 0.07 Cameroon 117.56 114.86 1.39 Cape Verde 1.93 0.56 1.38 Central African Republic 4.72 0.36 4.19 Chad 779.66 776.98 0.04 Comoros 1.23 1.19 0.01 Congo (Brazzaville) 656.17 652.55 3.29 Congo (Kinshasa) 208.54 115.00 93.14 Cote d'Ivoire 706.70 695.71 5.39 Djibouti 0.90 0.87 0.02 Egypt 925.09 817.67 89.35 Equatorial Guinea 770.41 767.08 0.42 Eritrea 0.72 0.67 0.05 Ethiopia 36.40 34.92 1.18 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) (-) (-) Gabon 1,626.87 1,621.47 4.42 Gambia 0.09 0.01 0.08 Ghana 83.99 75.95 6.54 Guinea 40.77 35.13 5.44 Guinea-Bissau 0.11 0.05 0.07 Kenya 200.00 175.16 22.59 Lesotho 236.71 216.36 18.73 Liberia 50.09 49.63 0.40 Madagascar 183.15 166.56 15.49 Malawi 61.89 61.28 0.55 Mali 2.54 0.12 0.71 Mauritania 0.49 0.44 0.04 Mauritius 127.84 85.66 41.58 Morocco 285.03 194.10 87.77 Mozambique 4.67 3.78 0.82 Namibia 69.17 31.86 11.06 Niger 64.24 60.06 0.54 Nigeria 12,731.86 12,613.72 11.39 Reunion 4.12 3.92 0.18 Rwanda 3.42 3.29 0.09 Sao Tome and Principe 0.18 0.08 0.10 Senegal 2.48 0.97 1.22 Seychelles 2.40 0.17 1.97 Sierra Leone 4.75 1.41 2.52 Somalia 0.22 0.12 0.08 South Africa 3,368.02 1,643.36 1,672.82 St Helena 1.64 0.88 0.70 Sudan 6.30 6.30 (-) Swaziland 121.85 117.93 3.34 Tanzania 20.32 12.22 6.72 Togo 5.54 4.41 1.10 Tunisia 102.94 70.41 29.36 Uganda 15.29 12.02 3.01 Western Sahara (-) (-) (-) Zambia 20.27 19.69 0.56 Zimbabwe 61.25 56.71 4.00 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 363,701.44 247,938.98 105,688.19 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 101,153.76 54,331.70 44,324.12 Bhutan 0.49 0.47 0.02 Brunei 316.85 303.86 10.61 Burma (Myanmar) 0.06 0.01 0.05 Cambodia 912.43 817.65 90.81 Hong Kong 4,402.56 2,539.36 1,682.36 Indonesia 6,724.80 5,761.89 881.37 Korea, South 25,454.57 16,533.43 8,455.27 Laos 1.71 1.15 0.52 Macao 571.68 401.25 162.98 Malaysia 18,362.23 5,244.98 12,715.30 Maldives 5.04 4.24 0.78 Philippines 5,108.28 2,544.99 2,410.19 Singapore 8,491.40 1,799.88 6,398.32 Taiwan 19,810.25 12,112.18 7,041.92 Thailand 10,991.41 6,266.36 4,473.62 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 79,808.88 57,980.65 19,895.51 Japan 79,808.88 57,980.65 19,895.51 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 33,851.41 24,847.86 8,212.36 Bahrain 210.99 162.07 47.97 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel 0.52 0.51 (-) Iran 87.64 40.18 45.09 Iraq 4,874.68 4,683.40 144.95 Israel 9,638.54 1,568.37 7,468.93 Jordan 682.40 531.89 146.18 Kuwait 2,023.11 1,947.17 73.15 Lebanon 48.52 26.92 13.75 Oman 337.46 300.99 21.22 Qatar 174.63 128.11 14.33 Republic of Yemen 92.99 92.20 0.51 Saudi Arabia 14,728.30 14,630.27 37.07 Syria 240.58 233.99 2.08 United Arab Emirates 709.99 501.32 196.58 West Bank Administered by Israel 1.06 0.47 0.55 MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 134,077.95 100,907.35 28,559.80 China 130,467.36 97,590.32 28,316.59 Mongolia 69.13 64.66 4.02 North Korea (-) (-) (-) Vietnam 3,541.46 3,252.37 239.19 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 14,809.44 9,871.42 4,696.40 Afghanistan 26.30 0.29 24.11 Bangladesh 1,454.89 1,332.93 100.86 India 10,273.42 5,983.21 4,113.09 Nepal 68.98 40.19 26.82 Pakistan 1,778.81 1,596.94 164.41 Sri Lanka 1,207.04 917.86 267.11 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 6,410.78 4,961.70 1,187.22 Australia 4,278.90 3,149.74 917.85 Christmas Island 0.27 0.05 0.08 Cocos (Keeling) Island 0.40 0.16 (-) Cook Islands 1.30 0.01 1.15 Federated States of Micronesia 1.37 1.09 0.24 Fiji 90.29 78.62 6.14 French Polynesia 34.57 7.86 22.52 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) (-) (-) Kiribati 0.59 0.03 0.51 Marshall Islands 10.64 3.13 4.28 Nauru 0.11 (-) 0.10 New Caledonia 13.25 12.76 0.48 New Zealand 1,945.02 1,685.17 226.21 Niue 0.08 0.08 (-) Norfolk Island 0.11 (-) 0.11 Palau 0.32 0.14 0.18 Papua New Guinea 21.42 18.04 2.94 Pitcairn Island 0.11 0.11 (-) Solomon Islands 0.66 0.15 0.47 Tokelau 3.58 1.73 1.67 Tonga 2.91 0.42 1.29 Tuvalu 0.01 (-) 0.01 Vanuatu 0.85 0.40 0.44 Wallis and Futuna (-) (-) (-) Western Samoa 4.02 2.01 0.55 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 203,426.66 106,831.38 79,079.28 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 27,296.90 18,883.46 7,349.95 Albania 32.14 29.97 1.81 Andorra 0.49 0.23 0.24 Armenia 22.56 4.29 14.47 Azerbaijan 15.56 13.04 2.35 Belarus 236.81 230.47 3.61 Bosnia-Hercegovina 9.24 6.29 2.60 Bulgaria 259.44 210.54 36.35 Croatia 192.07 49.84 138.74 Faroe Islands 3.07 2.17 0.41 Georgia 128.94 125.79 0.84 Gibraltar 4.10 2.48 1.38 Iceland 151.59 88.60 58.59 Kazakhstan 629.09 591.87 29.76 Kyrgyzstan 2.50 2.43 0.01 Liechtenstein 176.58 47.76 40.65 Macedonia (Skopje) 29.87 25.00 4.71 Moldova 26.75 22.19 4.02 Monaco 11.10 7.12 2.89 Norway 4,090.72 3,594.74 407.52 Romania 596.14 465.37 99.31 Russia 9,133.36 8,503.48 472.54 San Marino 0.79 0.46 0.22 Serbia and Montenegro 31.20 27.80 1.63 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island 0.03 (-) 0.03 Switzerland 7,612.35 1,568.38 5,484.10 Tajikistan 182.77 182.09 0.17 Turkey 2,952.18 2,350.93 519.82 Turkmenistan 89.82 87.11 2.41 Ukraine 612.28 582.89 15.81 Uzbekistan 63.25 60.10 2.92 Vatican City 0.11 0.03 0.04 MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 176,129.76 87,947.92 71,729.33 Austria 3,394.85 1,910.36 1,170.33 Belgium 7,461.76 3,627.78 3,407.08 Cyprus 17.15 9.26 7.78 Czech Republic 1,259.51 649.64 431.90 Denmark 2,730.45 1,119.51 1,348.38 Estonia 291.17 254.79 22.63 Federal Republic of Germany 48,394.22 28,224.58 14,235.09 Finland 2,565.45 1,662.84 719.48 France 19,529.43 7,633.98 8,963.64 Greece 485.76 390.25 82.90 Hungary 1,397.94 402.66 895.32 Ireland 16,564.58 2,432.74 13,810.94 Italy 18,031.85 9,829.68 6,588.38 Latvia 117.74 94.75 3.93 Lithuania 372.78 349.49 14.57 Luxembourg 204.09 159.12 30.82 Malta 166.88 17.03 142.44 Netherlands 8,007.94 4,816.40 2,659.80 Poland 1,132.61 792.44 217.59 Portugal 1,381.66 666.76 597.51 Slovakia 577.20 511.55 40.68 Slovenia 257.15 150.48 91.85 Spain 4,982.28 3,072.51 1,613.08 Sweden 8,397.97 4,434.31 3,383.04 United Kingdom 28,407.34 14,735.01 11,250.17 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 322,501.52 84,689.12 12,953.65 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 158,649.74 7,231.74 4,871.61 Canada 158,649.74 7,231.74 4,871.61 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 7,863.63 6,703.79 963.61 Costa Rica 1,966.83 1,294.93 575.16 El Salvador 1,150.35 1,062.37 83.76 Guatemala 1,939.93 1,791.47 124.30 Honduras 2,146.29 2,023.67 113.11 Nicaragua 660.23 531.35 67.28 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 145,705.38 61,411.28 6,421.40 Argentina 2,503.23 2,299.39 179.27 Bolivia 153.11 94.93 57.45 Brazil 14,070.77 11,236.84 1,553.50 Chile 3,700.99 3,198.47 462.56 Colombia 4,707.17 3,722.89 729.43 Ecuador 3,208.94 2,988.81 160.04 Mexico 95,128.37 16,896.42 2,078.09 Paraguay 25.47 21.05 3.91 Peru 2,669.78 1,571.33 1,082.44 Uruguay 408.11 371.09 35.43 Venezuela 19,129.44 19,010.06 79.28 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 3,061.29 2,474.88 514.02 Cuba (-) (-) (-) Dominican Republic 2,618.84 2,100.70 458.91 Haiti 263.25 253.78 7.74 Panama 179.20 120.40 47.37 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 7,221.48 6,867.43 183.01 Anguilla 0.84 0.68 0.15 Antigua and Barbuda 2.56 0.80 1.45 Aruba 1,358.44 1,341.09 3.60 Bahamas 471.09 456.70 9.98 Barbados 19.83 7.11 11.50 Belize 63.31 60.37 1.37 Bermuda 35.38 2.22 31.75 British Virgin Islands 28.38 19.82 6.58 Cayman Islands 14.29 4.11 2.61 Dominica 1.52 0.79 0.37 Falkland Islands 6.20 6.16 0.02 French Guiana 0.06 0.03 0.03 Greenland 7.25 7.10 0.01 Grenada 3.95 1.39 1.96 Guadeloupe 1.26 0.77 0.44 Guyana 72.07 58.69 4.74 Jamaica 216.93 186.09 14.15 Martinique 0.39 0.10 0.26 Montserrat 0.32 0.03 0.23 Netherlands Antilles 516.56 401.00 24.07 St Kitts and Nevis 28.19 3.21 24.22 St Lucia 24.10 16.93 6.66 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.73 (-) 0.03 St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.80 0.24 0.33 Suriname 89.34 84.90 4.29 Trinidad and Tobago 4,253.02 4,203.25 31.42 Turks and Caicos Islands 4.67 3.85 0.79 _________________ 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, July 2005. For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.