Exhibit 8: U.S. General Imports of Merchandise Market/World Area by Country of Origin Customs Value May 2006 Country of Origin Total W O R L D T O T A L 157,978.2 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 6,619.9 Algeria 1,391.0 Angola 682.5 Benin 0.2 Botswana 25.8 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.1 Burkina (-) Burundi (-) Cameroon 20.4 Cape Verde (-) Central African Republic 0.3 Chad 149.7 Comoros 0.1 Congo (Brazzaville) 84.3 Congo (Kinshasa) 9.5 Cote d'Ivoire 15.7 Djibouti 0.4 Egypt 299.8 Equatorial Guinea 108.4 Eritrea 0.2 Ethiopia 11.6 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) Gabon 59.8 Gambia (-) Ghana 9.0 Guinea 7.3 Guinea-Bissau (-) Kenya 19.4 Lesotho 22.3 Liberia 21.5 Madagascar 17.1 Malawi 2.5 Mali 0.2 Mauritania (-) Mauritius 17.0 Morocco 40.7 Mozambique 0.6 Namibia 4.8 Niger 1.6 Nigeria 2,813.0 Reunion 1.0 Rwanda (-) Sao Tome and Principe 0.1 Senegal 0.3 Seychelles 0.7 Sierra Leone 4.2 Somalia (-) South Africa 680.8 St Helena (-) Sudan 0.8 Swaziland 14.5 Tanzania 3.2 Togo 0.1 Tunisia 65.9 Uganda 0.9 Western Sahara (-) Zambia 2.4 Zimbabwe 8.5 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 60,568.5 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 16,234.4 Bhutan 0.2 Brunei 35.1 Burma (Myanmar) (-) Cambodia 132.3 Hong Kong 609.1 Indonesia 1,086.8 Korea, South 4,121.6 Laos 0.3 Macao 99.6 Malaysia 2,971.7 Maldives 0.2 Philippines 768.0 Singapore 1,387.8 Taiwan 3,245.1 Thailand 1,776.6 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 11,946.5 Japan 11,946.5 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 6,957.8 Bahrain 86.3 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel (-) Iran 16.0 Iraq 1,270.6 Israel 1,764.4 Jordan 110.6 Kuwait 430.7 Lebanon 7.4 Oman 49.1 Qatar 7.0 Republic of Yemen 67.9 Saudi Arabia 3,023.7 Syria 1.9 United Arab Emirates 122.4 West Bank Administered by Israel (-) MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 22,953.6 China 22,253.6 Mongolia 6.8 North Korea (-) Vietnam 693.2 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 2,476.3 Afghanistan 2.3 Bangladesh 224.6 India 1,785.1 Nepal 7.1 Pakistan 312.3 Sri Lanka 144.9 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 960.0 Australia 676.2 Christmas Island (-) Cocos (Keeling) Island (-) Cook Islands (-) Federated States of Micronesia (-) Fiji 9.6 French Polynesia 5.1 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) Kiribati 0.1 Marshall Islands 0.8 Nauru (-) New Caledonia 1.7 New Zealand 259.2 Niue (-) Norfolk Island (-) Palau (-) Papua New Guinea 5.5 Pitcairn Island (-) Solomon Islands 0.2 Tokelau 0.3 Tonga 0.6 Tuvalu (-) Vanuatu 0.1 Wallis and Futuna (-) Western Samoa 0.5 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 34,499.2 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 5,335.9 Albania 1.7 Andorra 0.1 Armenia 3.4 Azerbaijan 0.3 Belarus 46.9 Bosnia-Hercegovina 1.1 Bulgaria 40.6 Croatia 24.2 Faroe Islands (-) Georgia 21.2 Gibraltar 0.1 Iceland 28.6 Kazakhstan 64.1 Kyrgyzstan 0.4 Liechtenstein 26.5 Macedonia (Skopje) 1.0 Moldova 3.7 Monaco 3.4 Norway 738.1 Romania 93.7 Russia 2,341.5 San Marino 0.2 Serbia and Montenegro 4.5 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) Switzerland 1,205.0 Tajikistan (-) Turkey 434.8 Turkmenistan 4.1 Ukraine 237.3 Uzbekistan 9.8 Vatican City (-) MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 29,163.3 Austria 646.4 Belgium 1,409.3 Cyprus 3.3 Czech Republic 199.9 Denmark 499.3 Estonia 103.8 Federal Republic of Germany 7,394.8 Finland 521.0 France 3,105.6 Greece 68.8 Hungary 192.1 Ireland 2,643.9 Italy 2,870.6 Latvia 62.6 Lithuania 71.7 Luxembourg 41.7 Malta 38.4 Netherlands 1,648.9 Poland 227.5 Portugal 209.8 Slovakia 95.5 Slovenia 45.8 Spain 861.3 Sweden 1,247.2 United Kingdom 4,954.3 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 55,152.0 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 26,384.8 Canada 26,384.8 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 1,244.7 Costa Rica 366.2 El Salvador 150.7 Guatemala 292.6 Honduras 321.3 Nicaragua 114.0 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 25,551.0 Argentina 331.7 Bolivia 22.3 Brazil 1,946.5 Chile 760.1 Colombia 888.9 Ecuador 658.4 Mexico 17,106.7 Paraguay 3.1 Peru 533.0 Uruguay 56.6 Venezuela 3,243.7 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 486.2 Cuba (-) Dominican Republic 396.6 Haiti 50.5 Panama 39.1 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 1,485.3 Anguilla 0.8 Antigua and Barbuda 0.5 Aruba 349.7 Bahamas 35.2 Barbados 3.1 Belize 4.9 Bermuda 1.5 British Virgin Islands 1.2 Cayman Islands 1.2 Dominica 0.3 Falkland Islands 1.1 French Guiana (-) Greenland 1.0 Grenada 0.5 Guadeloupe 0.2 Guyana 10.8 Jamaica 46.5 Martinique 0.1 Montserrat (-) Netherlands Antilles 90.8 St Kitts and Nevis 4.4 St Lucia 1.3 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.4 St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.1 Suriname 14.4 Trinidad and Tobago 914.4 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.1 _________________ Customs Value Year-to-Date Country of Origin Total Value Vessel Value Air Value W O R L D T O T A L 740,260.0 382,408.1 154,361.6 WORLD AREA = AFRICA Subtotal 29,790.7 27,627.2 2,000.6 Algeria 5,141.6 5,125.8 1.1 Angola 3,945.4 3,940.2 5.2 Benin 0.4 (-) 0.3 Botswana 141.0 13.3 127.2 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.7 0.5 0.1 Burkina 0.2 0.1 (-) Burundi 0.7 0.7 0.1 Cameroon 63.4 61.0 1.8 Cape Verde 0.2 0.1 (-) Central African Republic 1.5 0.3 1.1 Chad 645.2 642.7 0.1 Comoros 1.1 0.7 0.4 Congo (Brazzaville) 978.7 973.7 4.5 Congo (Kinshasa) 25.5 2.6 22.8 Cote d'Ivoire 335.8 325.9 4.7 Djibouti 1.0 0.2 0.9 Egypt 1,030.1 960.1 62.1 Equatorial Guinea 758.9 756.0 0.2 Eritrea 0.5 0.3 0.2 Ethiopia 31.6 27.8 3.4 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (-) (-) (-) Gabon 432.1 427.3 3.1 Gambia 0.1 0.1 0.1 Ghana 69.5 61.5 6.7 Guinea 34.8 32.3 2.2 Guinea-Bissau 0.3 (-) 0.3 Kenya 130.9 108.8 20.2 Lesotho 138.4 131.6 6.4 Liberia 65.5 65.4 (-) Madagascar 105.9 93.7 10.5 Malawi 23.6 23.3 0.4 Mali 3.8 0.2 3.1 Mauritania 0.2 0.1 0.1 Mauritius 92.5 65.9 23.1 Morocco 193.8 106.1 84.8 Mozambique 4.6 4.4 0.2 Namibia 34.6 16.9 4.8 Niger 51.7 48.3 0.2 Nigeria 12,009.1 11,978.2 7.1 Reunion 3.8 3.6 0.1 Rwanda 2.5 2.4 (-) Sao Tome and Principe 0.1 (-) (-) Senegal 1.9 1.1 0.5 Seychelles 4.3 0.3 3.6 Sierra Leone 8.7 4.9 3.2 Somalia 0.2 (-) 0.2 South Africa 2,926.6 1,337.6 1,522.8 St Helena 0.4 0.1 0.2 Sudan 3.5 3.5 (-) Swaziland 55.9 53.3 2.1 Tanzania 15.4 10.0 3.9 Togo 0.8 0.2 0.5 Tunisia 208.5 160.3 45.6 Uganda 11.7 9.0 2.3 Western Sahara (-) (-) (-) Zambia 10.1 8.8 1.2 Zimbabwe 41.6 36.1 4.9 WORLD AREA = ASIA Subtotal 284,566.8 194,370.4 82,271.1 MARKET = ASIA, N.E.C. Subsubtotal 77,417.5 41,390.9 33,893.2 Bhutan 0.4 0.3 0.1 Brunei 171.3 163.6 6.0 Burma (Myanmar) (-) (-) (-) Cambodia 793.7 680.9 108.6 Hong Kong 3,140.3 1,824.2 1,159.2 Indonesia 5,222.7 4,402.9 745.8 Korea, South 18,843.1 13,293.4 5,114.7 Laos 3.3 2.3 0.9 Macao 544.6 396.3 137.9 Malaysia 14,144.4 3,663.1 10,205.1 Maldives 0.8 0.2 0.6 Philippines 3,890.1 1,955.9 1,831.5 Singapore 6,920.2 1,123.3 5,613.5 Taiwan 15,095.6 8,908.8 5,648.8 Thailand 8,647.0 4,975.8 3,320.6 MARKET = JAPAN, Subsubtotal 59,663.3 44,744.3 13,588.5 Japan 59,663.3 44,744.3 13,588.5 MARKET = NEAR EAST ASIA, Subsubtotal 28,541.5 21,417.3 6,477.8 Bahrain 256.9 199.0 56.9 Gaza Strip Administered by Israel 0.3 0.3 (-) Iran 81.1 46.0 31.8 Iraq 4,478.4 4,318.8 98.5 Israel 7,642.1 1,225.3 5,942.9 Jordan 545.2 442.1 100.2 Kuwait 1,462.2 1,443.1 18.6 Lebanon 41.0 27.6 7.6 Oman 228.1 205.2 11.2 Qatar 136.6 96.8 15.7 Republic of Yemen 278.1 276.5 0.9 Saudi Arabia 12,775.2 12,711.1 14.7 Syria 63.3 59.8 1.7 United Arab Emirates 552.8 365.4 177.1 West Bank Administered by Israel 0.4 0.4 (-) MARKET = SELECTED AREAS IN ASIA, Subsubtotal 106,642.5 78,735.0 24,301.3 China 103,488.3 75,899.3 24,024.5 Mongolia 44.5 39.5 4.6 North Korea (-) (-) (-) Vietnam 3,109.7 2,796.2 272.1 MARKET = SOUTH ASIA, Subsubtotal 12,302.1 8,082.9 4,010.3 Afghanistan 21.7 0.8 20.2 Bangladesh 1,216.5 1,093.7 104.2 India 8,729.1 5,049.0 3,527.5 Nepal 43.6 21.8 21.0 Pakistan 1,417.8 1,277.4 127.5 Sri Lanka 873.5 640.2 210.0 WORLD AREA = AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA Subtotal 4,560.9 3,404.7 943.5 Australia 3,137.9 2,237.8 726.9 Christmas Island 0.3 0.2 (-) Cocos (Keeling) Island 0.3 0.1 0.1 Cook Islands 0.3 (-) 0.2 Federated States of Micronesia 0.3 0.3 (-) Fiji 52.0 44.6 3.8 French Polynesia 18.8 2.4 13.1 Heard and McDonald Islands (-) (-) (-) Kiribati 0.4 (-) 0.3 Marshall Islands 4.5 1.0 2.0 Nauru 0.1 (-) 0.1 New Caledonia 14.5 12.6 1.9 New Zealand 1,305.3 1,089.0 189.6 Niue (-) (-) (-) Norfolk Island 0.1 (-) 0.1 Palau 0.3 (-) 0.2 Papua New Guinea 16.3 13.3 1.2 Pitcairn Island 0.1 (-) (-) Solomon Islands 0.7 0.2 0.5 Tokelau 2.7 1.9 0.7 Tonga 3.2 0.1 1.8 Tuvalu (-) (-) (-) Vanuatu 0.7 (-) 0.6 Wallis and Futuna (-) (-) (-) Western Samoa 2.2 1.1 0.3 WORLD AREA = EUROPE Subtotal 156,315.9 84,465.9 59,529.6 MARKET = OTHER EUROPE Subtotal 21,580.5 15,181.4 5,652.6 Albania 18.6 17.9 0.3 Andorra 0.1 (-) 0.1 Armenia 17.1 4.1 10.1 Azerbaijan 3.4 2.3 1.0 Belarus 186.4 180.4 4.5 Bosnia-Hercegovina 5.1 3.2 1.4 Bulgaria 189.8 154.7 26.7 Croatia 158.0 30.0 124.7 Faroe Islands 1.8 1.7 0.1 Georgia 52.2 50.8 0.6 Gibraltar 0.4 0.2 0.2 Iceland 119.2 71.9 45.5 Kazakhstan 336.6 315.3 19.7 Kyrgyzstan 2.7 2.1 0.6 Liechtenstein 142.6 45.7 44.6 Macedonia (Skopje) 21.1 17.2 3.8 Moldova 16.8 9.5 1.5 Monaco 9.9 4.6 4.3 Norway 3,169.2 2,672.3 398.5 Romania 542.7 429.4 92.5 Russia 7,927.7 7,347.8 467.7 San Marino 1.5 0.8 0.6 Serbia and Montenegro 26.6 23.2 3.0 Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island (-) (-) (-) Switzerland 5,577.1 1,213.8 4,002.1 Tajikistan 60.5 60.3 (-) Turkey 2,263.9 1,847.1 364.7 Turkmenistan 23.2 21.8 1.3 Ukraine 688.2 638.4 29.2 Uzbekistan 18.3 14.9 3.3 Vatican City 0.2 0.2 (-) MARKET = EUROPEAN UNION Subsubtotal 134,735.4 69,284.5 53,877.0 Austria 3,060.9 1,884.0 962.7 Belgium 6,155.8 2,733.8 3,143.8 Cyprus 12.8 6.8 6.0 Czech Republic 961.9 583.1 299.1 Denmark 2,019.5 1,089.8 767.4 Estonia 278.5 235.2 32.6 Federal Republic of Germany 36,806.2 21,897.8 11,074.0 Finland 2,008.7 1,486.7 364.6 France 15,188.5 6,067.6 6,652.6 Greece 397.2 334.6 56.8 Hungary 1,103.6 306.0 732.2 Ireland 11,577.4 1,696.8 9,681.7 Italy 13,131.9 7,563.6 4,593.6 Latvia 208.8 189.5 4.1 Lithuania 334.4 313.2 14.9 Luxembourg 262.8 132.2 111.0 Malta 175.9 74.2 93.8 Netherlands 6,760.1 4,633.3 1,743.3 Poland 1,014.0 701.8 217.1 Portugal 1,050.5 621.9 366.3 Slovakia 368.7 317.8 39.0 Slovenia 182.4 116.0 59.3 Spain 3,794.7 2,487.7 1,049.2 Sweden 6,152.5 3,227.5 2,513.6 United Kingdom 21,727.8 10,583.8 9,298.5 WORLD AREA = WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subtotal 264,242.5 71,757.9 9,616.5 MARKET = CANADA, Subsubtotal 129,249.6 6,464.0 3,401.6 Canada 129,249.6 6,464.0 3,401.6 MARKET = CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET Subsubtotal 5,572.1 4,622.6 786.1 Costa Rica 1,616.6 1,047.1 497.3 El Salvador 624.2 553.6 65.2 Guatemala 1,294.3 1,183.6 87.4 Honduras 1,424.9 1,318.6 98.6 Nicaragua 612.2 519.7 37.5 MARKET = LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION Subsu 120,972.9 52,903.7 4,970.6 Argentina 1,691.7 1,548.8 128.5 Bolivia 132.5 88.6 43.6 Brazil 10,092.3 8,600.4 929.4 Chile 3,951.0 3,433.0 488.9 Colombia 3,987.9 3,170.7 583.6 Ecuador 2,906.7 2,716.0 133.3 Mexico 80,240.1 16,473.6 1,673.5 Paraguay 17.2 13.8 3.1 Peru 2,374.7 1,429.0 933.7 Uruguay 249.9 228.7 19.9 Venezuela 15,329.0 15,201.2 33.0 MARKET = OTHER LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS Subsubtotal 2,115.1 1,686.8 346.9 Cuba 0.1 0.1 (-) Dominican Republic 1,782.2 1,410.5 307.8 Haiti 191.9 185.7 4.2 Panama 140.9 90.5 34.9 MARKET = OTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE Subsubtotal 6,332.9 6,080.8 111.4 Anguilla 2.6 2.4 0.1 Antigua and Barbuda 2.6 0.8 1.7 Aruba 1,339.3 1,325.0 2.5 Bahamas 202.6 194.6 4.3 Barbados 14.7 6.2 7.8 Belize 48.4 46.3 1.3 Bermuda 4.5 1.2 2.0 British Virgin Islands 11.0 9.6 0.8 Cayman Islands 6.3 4.5 1.7 Dominica 2.0 1.2 0.2 Falkland Islands 6.5 6.4 (-) French Guiana 0.2 0.2 (-) Greenland 4.5 4.4 (-) Grenada 1.9 0.1 1.3 Guadeloupe 0.9 0.2 0.6 Guyana 60.4 54.8 3.1 Jamaica 219.9 190.9 10.1 Martinique 0.5 0.2 0.2 Montserrat 0.3 (-) 0.3 Netherlands Antilles 495.7 391.5 23.3 St Kitts and Nevis 20.7 2.9 17.2 St Lucia 21.0 15.0 4.0 St Pierre and Miquelon 0.5 0.1 (-) St Vincent and the Grenadines 0.4 0.2 0.2 Suriname 54.4 52.1 2.2 Trinidad and Tobago 3,806.9 3,765.9 26.0 Turks and Caicos Islands 4.4 4.0 0.4 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, May 2006. For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.