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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 440:  WOOL SHIRTS/BLOUSES, NOT-KNIT
                     Data in Doz., 20.10 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            37279     31651       2314       3144     35.87     34239      31651      31989      32481      -5.13  100.00

 CHINA P          11677     10788       1310        674    -48.51     12220      10788      10750      10152     -16.92   31.26

 MEXICO           13360      8275        157        916    483.44     11342       8275       8201       9034     -20.35   27.81

 INDIA              768      4285         19        585   2980.26       681       4285       4749       4851     612.37   14.94

 ITALY             2452      1843        361        294    -18.56      2219       1843       1802       1776     -19.96    5.47

 CANADA             678       723          3         41   1266.67       433        723        761        761      75.75    2.34

 VIETNAM           1317       717          0          *       *        1028        717        717        717     -30.25    2.21

 COLOMB            1574       677          2         33   1550.00      1440        677        677        708     -50.83    2.18

 SALVADR            550       643         12         20     66.67       544        643        649        651      19.67    2.00

 FRANCE             332       512         12         79    558.33       333        512        514        579      73.87    1.78

 DOM REP            428       729        296         45    -84.80       599        729        572        478     -20.20    1.47

 MOROC              278       311          9         95    955.56       252        311        314        397      57.54    1.22

 ISRAEL             625        80         16          *       *         641         80         64         64     -90.02    0.20

 BNGLDSH            336         8          0          *       *         336          8          8          8     -97.62    0.02

 MAURIT               3         2          0          *       *           3          2          2          2     -33.33    0.01


 _CBI              1130      1593        338         69    -79.59      1243       1593       1445       1324       6.52    4.08

 _CAFTA            1074      1572        338         69    -79.59      1205       1572       1424       1303       8.13    4.01

 _ASEAN            1962       977         11        133   1109.09      1214        977       1080       1099      -9.47    3.38

 _ANDEAN           1625       787          2         33   1550.00      1491        787        787        818     -45.14    2.52