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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