Exhibit 8: U.S. General Imports of Merchandise Market/World Area by Country of Origin Customs Value March 2006 Country of Origin Total W O R L D T O T A L 153,887.0 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 5,604.0 Algeria 1,005.3 Angola 824.9 Benin (-) Botswana 17.8 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.5 Burkina 0.1 Burundi 0.2 Cameroon 4.4 Cape Verde 0.1 Central African Republic 0.2 Chad 145.3 Comoros 0.8 Congo (Brazzaville) 127.4 Congo (Kinshasa) 4.0 Cote d'Ivoire 88.0 Djibouti 0.1 Egypt 136.6 Equatorial Guinea 161.9 Eritrea (-) Ethiopia 5.6 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) Gabon 118.8 Gambia 0.1 Ghana 18.7 Guinea 10.2 Guinea-Bissau (-) Kenya 31.4 Lesotho 36.5 Liberia 15.3 Madagascar 23.2 Malawi 5.4 Mali 2.7 Mauritania 0.1 Mauritius 18.7 Morocco 45.0 Mozambique 0.4 Namibia 16.9 Niger 1.8 Nigeria 2,054.5 Reunion 0.4 Rwanda 0.6 Sao Tome and Principe (-) Senegal 0.2 Seychelles 1.5 Sierra Leone 1.0 Somalia (-) South Africa 608.2 St Helena (-) Sudan (-) Swaziland 12.4 Tanzania 2.9 Togo 0.1 Tunisia 46.5 Uganda 3.8 Western Sahara (-) Zambia 0.2 Zimbabwe 3.4 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 58,464.7 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 16,052.5 Bhutan (-) Brunei 36.6 Burma (Myanmar) (-) Cambodia 180.6 Hong Kong 638.9 Indonesia 1,131.0 Korea, South 3,751.8 Laos 0.7 Macao 94.5 Malaysia 2,884.8 Maldives 0.2 Philippines 847.8 Singapore 1,519.3 Taiwan 3,017.0 Thailand 1,949.4 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 12,964.8 Japan 12,964.8 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 5,683.1 Bahrain 34.6 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel (-) Iran 20.0 Iraq 909.9 Israel 1,620.9 Jordan 120.0 Kuwait 248.9 Lebanon 6.6 Oman 28.8 Qatar 18.2 Republic of Yemen 62.3 Saudi Arabia 2,501.9 Syria 1.4 United Arab Emirates 109.6 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.1 MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 21,120.9 China 20,526.1 Mongolia 9.3 North Korea (-) Vietnam 585.5 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 2,643.4 Afghanistan 5.6 Bangladesh 275.8 India 1,846.5 Nepal 13.2 Pakistan 298.5 Sri Lanka 203.8 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 1,032.0 Australia 719.4 Christmas Island 0.1 Cocos (Keeling) Island (-) Cook Islands (-) Federated States of Micronesia 0.2 Fiji 14.1 French Polynesia 4.7 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) Kiribati 0.1 Marshall Islands 0.6 Nauru (-) New Caledonia 3.7 New Zealand 283.6 Niue (-) Norfolk Island (-) Palau 0.1 Papua New Guinea 3.2 Pitcairn Island (-) Solomon Islands 0.1 Tokelau 0.7 Tonga 0.7 Tuvalu (-) Vanuatu (-) Wallis and Futuna (-) Western Samoa 0.6 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 33,166.6 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 3,930.5 Albania 1.8 Andorra (-) Armenia 2.9 Azerbaijan 0.4 Belarus 16.9 Bosnia-Hercegovina 0.9 Bulgaria 22.0 Croatia 29.8 Faroe Islands 0.9 Georgia 7.1 Gibraltar 0.1 Iceland 27.5 Kazakhstan 20.0 Kyrgyzstan 0.6 Liechtenstein 26.9 Macedonia (Skopje) 2.6 Moldova 3.0 Monaco 1.8 Norway 611.0 Romania 82.6 Russia 1,302.9 San Marino 0.2 Serbia and Montenegro 5.7 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) Switzerland 1,194.6 Tajikistan 0.2 Turkey 450.7 Turkmenistan 3.2 Ukraine 112.8 Uzbekistan 1.8 Vatican City (-) MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 29,236.1 Austria 777.9 Belgium 1,512.5 Cyprus 2.0 Czech Republic 227.3 Denmark 474.8 Estonia 14.8 Federal Republic of Germany 7,983.9 Finland 411.6 France 3,245.5 Greece 73.3 Hungary 216.4 Ireland 2,878.3 Italy 2,785.7 Latvia 12.7 Lithuania 109.8 Luxembourg 42.5 Malta 27.2 Netherlands 1,216.1 Poland 235.3 Portugal 182.3 Slovakia 59.7 Slovenia 35.8 Spain 702.2 Sweden 1,313.4 United Kingdom 4,695.3 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 55,464.5 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 26,527.1 Canada 26,527.1 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 1,266.2 Costa Rica 392.0 El Salvador 88.5 Guatemala 320.7 Honduras 340.0 Nicaragua 125.0 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 25,985.1 Argentina 380.2 Bolivia 18.2 Brazil 2,198.1 Chile 858.4 Colombia 810.2 Ecuador 578.5 Mexico 17,383.9 Paraguay 3.8 Peru 541.3 Uruguay 55.2 Venezuela 3,157.4 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 509.8 Cuba (-) Dominican Republic 428.9 Haiti 46.5 Panama 34.3 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 1,176.3 Anguilla 0.5 Antigua and Barbuda 0.6 Aruba 270.4 Bahamas 34.5 Barbados 2.6 Belize 16.3 Bermuda 0.8 British Virgin Islands 0.5 Cayman Islands 1.2 Dominica 0.2 Falkland Islands 3.8 French Guiana (-) Greenland 0.6 Grenada 0.5 Guadeloupe 0.1 Guyana 13.1 Jamaica 57.8 Martinique 0.1 Montserrat (-) Netherlands Antilles 105.9 St Kitts and Nevis 4.4 St Lucia 1.2 St Pierre and Miquelon (-) St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.1 Suriname 7.8 Trinidad and Tobago 652.1 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.3 _________________ Customs Value Year-to-Date Country of Origin Total Value Vessel Value Air Value W O R L D T O T A L 435,102.1 219,759.3 93,155.3 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 17,229.2 15,971.6 1,159.8 Algeria 2,725.9 2,713.1 0.8 Angola 2,430.5 2,428.3 2.2 Benin (-) (-) (-) Botswana 60.7 9.7 50.8 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.5 0.4 0.1 Burkina 0.1 0.1 (-) Burundi 0.6 0.6 (-) Cameroon 40.2 38.3 1.3 Cape Verde 0.2 0.1 (-) Central African Republic 1.2 0.1 1.1 Chad 388.0 386.5 0.1 Comoros 0.9 0.6 0.4 Congo (Brazzaville) 617.3 612.9 4.1 Congo (Kinshasa) 8.2 1.2 6.9 Cote d'Ivoire 296.4 289.4 4.0 Djibouti 0.6 (-) 0.6 Egypt 502.1 453.5 43.1 Equatorial Guinea 539.0 537.2 0.1 Eritrea 0.2 0.1 (-) Ethiopia 11.0 8.1 2.7 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) (-) (-) Gabon 298.2 297.7 0.1 Gambia 0.1 (-) 0.1 Ghana 45.7 40.1 4.9 Guinea 20.5 19.5 0.9 Guinea-Bissau 0.3 (-) 0.3 Kenya 81.9 68.3 12.1 Lesotho 82.0 79.0 2.9 Liberia 41.6 41.6 (-) Madagascar 66.5 60.9 4.9 Malawi 17.5 17.4 0.1 Mali 3.0 0.1 2.9 Mauritania 0.2 0.1 0.1 Mauritius 61.1 43.8 15.7 Morocco 114.1 61.3 51.3 Mozambique 3.6 3.5 0.1 Namibia 24.9 10.8 1.8 Niger 28.8 27.0 0.1 Nigeria 6,865.6 6,837.2 5.1 Reunion 2.0 1.9 (-) Rwanda 2.0 2.0 (-) Sao Tome and Principe (-) (-) (-) Senegal 1.4 0.9 0.2 Seychelles 3.3 0.3 2.7 Sierra Leone 2.5 0.1 1.8 Somalia 0.2 (-) 0.2 South Africa 1,632.3 712.2 895.9 St Helena 0.3 0.1 0.2 Sudan 1.9 1.9 (-) Swaziland 30.1 29.2 0.8 Tanzania 8.9 6.1 2.2 Togo 0.3 0.2 0.1 Tunisia 130.3 99.5 29.0 Uganda 8.0 6.3 1.4 Western Sahara (-) (-) (-) Zambia 4.1 3.8 0.2 Zimbabwe 22.9 18.8 3.7 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 166,543.4 112,442.2 49,373.3 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 45,841.5 24,539.1 20,044.6 Bhutan 0.2 0.1 (-) Brunei 103.5 98.2 4.1 Burma (Myanmar) (-) (-) (-) Cambodia 529.0 456.7 70.0 Hong Kong 1,945.8 1,133.9 708.7 Indonesia 3,151.5 2,648.5 461.2 Korea, South 11,216.2 7,855.6 3,127.7 Laos 2.6 2.0 0.6 Macao 346.4 246.8 91.5 Malaysia 8,179.5 2,152.6 5,865.9 Maldives 0.4 0.1 0.4 Philippines 2,358.5 1,178.2 1,119.2 Singapore 4,066.2 651.0 3,290.2 Taiwan 8,762.9 5,136.9 3,303.5 Thailand 5,178.8 2,978.6 2,001.7 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 35,471.5 26,603.6 8,070.5 Japan 35,471.5 26,603.6 8,070.5 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 16,049.8 11,853.5 3,801.8 Bahrain 117.6 99.0 18.0 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel 0.2 0.2 (-) Iran 55.4 30.8 22.0 Iraq 2,425.8 2,328.3 52.0 Israel 4,544.2 729.4 3,514.9 Jordan 324.5 269.0 54.3 Kuwait 660.5 648.0 12.4 Lebanon 26.0 18.8 4.3 Oman 101.2 90.2 5.4 Qatar 114.8 85.7 9.4 Republic of Yemen 168.0 167.1 0.6 Saudi Arabia 7,149.3 7,129.5 7.2 Syria 31.1 29.2 0.9 United Arab Emirates 331.0 228.0 100.6 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.3 0.3 (-) MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 61,690.0 44,476.3 15,061.3 China 59,857.6 42,841.7 14,887.5 Mongolia 30.2 26.9 3.2 North Korea (-) (-) (-) Vietnam 1,802.2 1,607.8 170.6 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 7,490.6 4,969.6 2,395.2 Afghanistan 17.5 0.2 16.8 Bangladesh 765.0 690.6 61.8 India 5,266.8 3,088.5 2,088.9 Nepal 28.1 14.5 13.1 Pakistan 841.6 755.9 77.4 Sri Lanka 571.6 420.0 137.2 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 2,693.0 2,057.3 504.5 Australia 1,845.5 1,362.4 376.1 Christmas Island 0.3 0.2 (-) Cocos (Keeling) Island 0.1 (-) (-) Cook Islands 0.1 (-) 0.1 Federated States of Micronesia 0.2 0.2 (-) Fiji 30.4 26.2 2.4 French Polynesia 10.6 1.8 6.9 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) (-) (-) Kiribati 0.3 (-) 0.2 Marshall Islands 2.8 0.5 1.2 Nauru 0.1 (-) 0.1 New Caledonia 8.9 7.3 1.6 New Zealand 778.7 650.0 112.1 Niue (-) (-) (-) Norfolk Island (-) (-) (-) Palau 0.2 (-) 0.2 Papua New Guinea 8.8 6.5 0.9 Pitcairn Island (-) (-) (-) Solomon Islands 0.3 (-) 0.2 Tokelau 2.0 1.4 0.6 Tonga 2.0 (-) 1.2 Tuvalu (-) (-) (-) Vanuatu 0.5 (-) 0.5 Wallis and Futuna (-) (-) (-) Western Samoa 1.3 0.7 0.1 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 90,461.6 46,847.5 36,310.9 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 11,801.5 8,018.3 3,349.4 Albania 16.1 15.6 0.2 Andorra (-) (-) (-) Armenia 9.5 2.7 5.0 Azerbaijan 2.9 2.1 0.6 Belarus 88.2 84.6 2.7 Bosnia-Hercegovina 2.8 1.7 0.7 Bulgaria 109.4 85.9 18.2 Croatia 98.7 15.5 81.2 Faroe Islands 1.5 1.3 0.1 Georgia 23.5 22.8 0.2 Gibraltar 0.3 0.1 0.1 Iceland 68.8 40.2 27.4 Kazakhstan 259.4 244.5 14.1 Kyrgyzstan 2.1 1.6 0.4 Liechtenstein 88.9 23.8 34.8 Macedonia (Skopje) 18.6 15.4 3.2 Moldova 9.3 4.7 1.2 Monaco 5.2 3.0 1.7 Norway 1,775.9 1,500.7 229.7 Romania 289.1 220.9 55.4 Russia 3,934.4 3,564.2 294.2 San Marino 0.9 0.6 0.3 Serbia and Montenegro 17.9 15.7 2.0 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) (-) (-) Switzerland 3,274.9 717.5 2,349.2 Tajikistan 60.5 60.3 (-) Turkey 1,297.3 1,047.2 216.8 Turkmenistan 15.7 14.8 0.9 Ukraine 324.0 306.9 7.7 Uzbekistan 5.3 4.0 1.2 Vatican City 0.2 0.2 (-) MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 78,660.1 38,829.1 32,961.6 Austria 1,790.2 1,049.0 625.3 Belgium 3,694.7 1,521.0 2,010.5 Cyprus 6.8 3.3 3.4 Czech Republic 568.5 350.7 172.1 Denmark 1,110.8 559.3 460.8 Estonia 124.7 91.5 26.9 Federal Republic of Germany 21,616.2 12,843.5 6,502.2 Finland 1,092.2 785.6 224.1 France 9,043.4 3,491.0 3,968.9 Greece 204.8 166.5 35.0 Hungary 724.2 186.1 501.8 Ireland 7,189.0 883.3 6,187.4 Italy 7,638.1 4,268.1 2,785.5 Latvia 136.7 124.7 2.2 Lithuania 232.5 219.5 9.5 Luxembourg 190.1 81.7 96.5 Malta 74.1 9.7 59.6 Netherlands 3,789.1 2,465.7 1,101.9 Poland 592.0 412.1 126.5 Portugal 549.5 296.8 218.4 Slovakia 174.8 145.2 23.2 Slovenia 98.4 64.0 30.3 Spain 2,147.7 1,313.7 696.8 Sweden 3,516.1 1,724.6 1,539.8 United Kingdom 12,355.5 5,772.6 5,553.2 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 157,769.5 42,035.7 5,806.8 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 77,594.7 3,430.2 2,078.9 Canada 77,594.7 3,430.2 2,078.9 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 3,370.4 2,780.0 491.6 Costa Rica 949.7 596.0 311.1 El Salvador 368.3 325.2 39.7 Guatemala 767.8 698.1 54.2 Honduras 900.5 831.1 64.6 Nicaragua 384.1 329.7 22.1 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 71,988.5 31,416.7 2,970.2 Argentina 1,070.4 981.5 81.0 Bolivia 80.6 55.7 24.6 Brazil 6,087.7 5,219.4 550.3 Chile 2,441.9 2,137.6 286.5 Colombia 2,302.8 1,827.4 339.4 Ecuador 1,710.4 1,593.6 81.9 Mexico 47,455.5 9,451.8 995.4 Paraguay 10.3 8.6 1.6 Peru 1,465.4 880.2 577.6 Uruguay 158.2 145.9 11.4 Venezuela 9,205.4 9,114.9 20.5 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 1,230.9 983.7 203.3 Cuba (-) (-) (-) Dominican Republic 1,051.5 834.0 182.5 Haiti 101.3 98.3 1.9 Panama 78.1 51.4 19.0 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 3,585.0 3,425.2 62.7 Anguilla 1.1 0.9 0.1 Antigua and Barbuda 1.9 0.7 1.1 Aruba 714.8 707.3 1.5 Bahamas 140.1 135.0 2.3 Barbados 8.6 3.6 4.7 Belize 31.2 30.2 0.8 Bermuda 2.1 0.6 1.0 British Virgin Islands 9.1 8.1 0.4 Cayman Islands 4.0 3.0 1.0 Dominica 1.5 1.0 0.1 Falkland Islands 4.5 4.5 (-) French Guiana 0.2 0.2 (-) Greenland 2.7 2.5 (-) Grenada 1.1 0.1 0.7 Guadeloupe 0.5 0.2 0.3 Guyana 34.4 30.8 2.0 Jamaica 133.0 110.5 6.3 Martinique 0.4 0.2 0.1 Montserrat 0.3 (-) 0.3 Netherlands Antilles 330.2 259.6 14.6 St Kitts and Nevis 11.6 1.3 10.1 St Lucia 18.9 15.0 2.3 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.1 (-) (-) St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.3 0.2 0.1 Suriname 28.6 27.3 1.2 Trinidad and Tobago 2,101.6 2,080.1 11.6 Turks and Caicos Islands 2.4 2.2 0.2 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 2006. For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.