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| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 16, 2010
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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| By Category, Preliminary 2/2010 Data |
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(P) These data are limited preliminary import data based on import figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
It will be supplanted by official imports from the Census Bureau as those data become available. The release of these data
is to allow preliminary analysis of the impact of total imports into the United States and imports from China into the
United States to facilitate the administration of the textile safeguard in China's WTO Accession Agreement.
Because this report contains data for HTS Chapters 50-63 only, the following categories may be incomplete or not
appear at all: 201, 229, 239, 359, 362, 369, 439, 459, 469, 621, 622, 659, 666, 669, 670, 859, 870, 871 and 899.
Category 223: NON-WOVEN FABRICS
Data in Kg.., 14.00 M2 per Kg. .
Calendar Years Year-to-Date Year-Endings YE 2/2010
Country 2008 2009 2/2009 2/2010 % Change 2/2009 12/2009 1/2010 2/2010 % Change % Share
(P) (P)
WORLD 179491731 172053235 27517316 29731603 8.05 174377142 172053235 174006498 174267522 -0.06 100.00
CHINA P 31283659 31329194 4817413 5578578 15.80 30855977 31329194 31604993 32090359 4.00 18.41
ISRAEL 16299944 19817618 3138107 3944425 25.69 15921680 19817618 20522247 20623936 29.53 11.83
MEXICO 18539139 18137588 2220945 2864066 28.96 17513595 18137588 18623027 18780709 7.24 10.78
BRAZIL 11667974 15961182 2853881 3580729 25.47 11936717 15961182 16139475 16688030 39.80 9.58
CANADA 19527611 16410277 2694841 1273804 -52.73 19267816 16410277 16357423 14989240 -22.21 8.60
GERMANY 11478777 10679607 1375221 1994443 45.03 10643582 10679607 11067758 11298829 6.16 6.48
JAPAN 9857380 8707809 1452144 1511709 4.10 9588815 8707809 8775189 8767374 -8.57 5.03
FRANCE 5008115 4643562 836184 1132591 35.45 4675295 4643562 4812861 4939969 5.66 2.83
LUXMBRG 4917118 5254069 1021712 578133 -43.42 4702621 5254069 5176533 4810490 2.29 2.76
TURKEY 3811765 3564531 333652 692966 107.69 3550922 3564531 3798454 3923845 10.50 2.25
ITALY 3619631 3745021 637378 726760 14.02 3810480 3745021 3775165 3834403 0.63 2.20
FINLAND 4340829 3652130 650743 371629 -42.89 3675283 3652130 3406132 3373016 -8.22 1.94
INDIA 2170483 3036918 501532 800165 59.54 2442870 3036918 3155805 3335551 36.54 1.91
S ARAB 4679202 4052382 1101581 249006 -77.40 4768368 4052382 3795024 3199807 -32.90 1.84
CHINA T 7662368 3060790 587483 684250 16.47 6852984 3060790 3074179 3157557 -53.92 1.81
_ASEAN 3398870 3432349 472722 602116 27.37 3406293 3432349 3488616 3561743 4.56 2.04
_CBI 589533 387906 60150 71062 18.14 569466 387906 398250 398818 -29.97 0.23
_CAFTA 589527 387906 60150 71062 18.14 569460 387906 398250 398818 -29.97 0.23
_SUB-SAHARA 31154 106139 471 36979 7751.17 31625 106139 120152 142647 351.06 0.08