_________________________________________
                                          |                                         |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 16, 2010
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |                                         |
                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary  2/2010 Data |
                                          |_________________________________________|

(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 347:  M/B COT. TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                     Data in Doz., 14.90 M2 per Doz . 

                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         73114549  69983872   11811364   12533129      6.11  72462141   69983872   70322968   70705637      -2.42  100.00

 BNGLDSH       15302465  16609308    3319092    3243075     -2.29  16080221   16609308   16424634   16533291       2.82   23.38

 CHINA P        6617737  12999986    1670613    2835073     69.70   7306449   12999986   13617030   14164446      93.86   20.03

 MEXICO        12851575  11953991    1706528    1753101      2.73  12708856   11953991   11983808   12000564      -5.57   16.97

 VIETNAM        4142752   3929528     832737     925500     11.14   4042807    3929528    3973670    4022291      -0.51    5.69

 PAKISTN        4081867   3278226     433391     473934      9.35   3853206    3278226    3286381    3318769     -13.87    4.69

 EGYPT          2865060   2698374     492641     452869     -8.07   2828948    2698374    2717820    2658602      -6.02    3.76

 CAMBOD         3645147   2312460     436549     494962     13.38   3467565    2312460    2304092    2370873     -31.63    3.35

 INDNSIA        2454349   2401488     414890     327888    -20.97   2356613    2401488    2348369    2314486      -1.79    3.27

 INDIA          2650279   1971987     544081     382531    -29.69   2486195    1971987    1929227    1810437     -27.18    2.56

 HONDURA        2320436   1503429     272693     234626    -13.96   2264519    1503429    1517340    1465362     -35.29    2.07

 NICARAG        2093916   1366731     139877     203740     45.66   1763634    1366731    1374011    1430594     -18.88    2.02

 SRI LKA        1589124   1490174     331015     250929    -24.19   1672055    1490174    1450190    1410088     -15.67    1.99

 DOM REP        1443303   1048903     128408      99630    -22.41   1375855    1048903    1046278    1020125     -25.86    1.44

 LESOTHO        1365055   1021975     161393     101970    -36.82   1344886    1021975     999917     962552     -28.43    1.36

 SALVADR         716708    869814     107024      81767    -23.60    680084     869814     902280     844557      24.18    1.19


 _ASEAN        12032620   9816647    1905158    1870537     -1.82  11555446    9816647    9743604    9782026     -15.35   13.83

 _CBI           8089291   5658804     743790     706295     -5.04   7422935    5658804    5699754    5621309     -24.27    7.95

 _CAFTA         7635158   5127476     676310     671709     -0.68   6971141    5127476    5180183    5122875     -26.51    7.25

 _SUB-SAHARA    2672818   2197538     391330     335882    -14.17   2666874    2197538    2166357    2142090     -19.68    3.03

 _ANDEAN         799352    424828      53366     104595     96.00    732275     424828     456435     476057     -34.99    0.67