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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 225:  BLUE DENIM FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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         40782654  31004208    5109369    5511151      7.86  38970160   31004208   30927845   31405990     -19.41  100.00

 CHINA P       13059474  10967241    1325762    1644721     24.06  11995957   10967241   11161105   11286200      -5.92   35.94

 ITALY          7231621   4680831     881852    1295889     46.95   6820438    4680831    4830854    5094868     -25.30   16.22

 CHINA T        4562303   4604778     806446     741992     -7.99   4618680    4604778    4511495    4540324      -1.70   14.46

 MEXICO         4873458   4807360    1467985     345003    -76.50   5370693    4807360    4082251    3684378     -31.40   11.73

 JAPAN          1998723   2392954     331078     593309     79.21   2133391    2392954    2551387    2655185      24.46    8.45

 TURKEY         5253021   1438365     147572     459498    211.37   4910762    1438365    1552341    1750291     -64.36    5.57