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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 432:  WOOL HOSIERY
                     Data in Dpr.,  2.30 M2 per Dpr . 

                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           793780    612028      47896      54707     14.22    793510     612028     614357     618839     -22.01  100.00

 CHINA P         167019    160574      16495      19332     17.20    180028     160574     157822     163411      -9.23   26.41

 KOR REP         236727    146762      11540      14604     26.55    236067     146762     149176     149826     -36.53   24.21

 ITALY           102045     86220       7095       4673    -34.14    104895      86220      84266      83798     -20.11   13.54

 PAKISTN          13612     40307        400         83    -79.25     14004      40307      39907      39990     185.56    6.46

 MEXICO           69675     27029       2175       3203     47.26     64109      27029      28361      28057     -56.24    4.53

 REP SAF          42475     21217        417       2608    525.42     39189      21217      23271      23408     -40.27    3.78


 _SUB-SAHARA      42489     21227        417       2611    526.14     39203      21227      23281      23421     -40.26    3.78