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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 300:  CARDED COTTON YARN
                     Data in Kg..,  8.50 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         16904510  13917131    1423858    3140154    120.54  15795790   13917131   14465377   15633427      -1.03  100.00

 PAKISTN        8227944   6130904     716037    1219530     70.32   7656021    6130904    6187513    6634397     -13.34   42.44

 MEXICO         2446007   3653644     356951     748769    109.77   2462627    3653644    3887941    4045462      64.27   25.88

 INDIA          1728585   1346796     113206     403376    256.32   1692991    1346796    1391738    1636966      -3.31   10.47

 KOR REP         112678    670142      14667     219538   1396.82    106711     670142     725509     875013     719.98    5.60

 CHINA P         934971    461656      16797     139231    728.90    792321     461656     531005     584090     -26.28    3.74

 INDNSIA         468084    476691      43379     117576    171.04    399276     476691     491208     550888      37.97    3.52

 HONDURA          31553    295809       1595       1460     -8.46     33148     295809     297269     295674     791.98    1.89

 SPAIN           526838    249867      79290      20251    -74.46    486794     249867     213684     190828     -60.80    1.22

 VIETNAM          21773     36809          0     145152       *       21773      36809     127529     181961     735.72    1.16

 THAILND         844903    139673      16803      52159    210.41    713525     139673     150028     175029     -75.47    1.12

 EGYPT           292356    160355      41630      46425     11.52    256691     160355     179867     165150     -35.66    1.06

 CANADA          838880     73452       4504       2533    -43.76    824104      73452      71821      71481     -91.33    0.46


 _ASEAN         1337557    653173      60182     314887    423.22   1136453     653173     768765     907878     -20.11    5.81

 _CBI             64983    295809       1595       1460     -8.46     66578     295809     297269     295674     344.10    1.89

 _CAFTA           64983    295809       1595       1460     -8.46     66578     295809     297269     295674     344.10    1.89