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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 604:  YARN > 85% SYNTHETIC STAPLE FIBER
                     Data in Kg..,  7.60 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         26507245  20863308    2827513    4142523     46.51  24883335   20863308   21825540   22178318     -10.87  100.00

 INDNSIA       13592061  12307015    1693063    2499803     47.65  12898358   12307015   12916046   13113755       1.67   59.13

 INDIA          2271675   2031168     169346     430117    153.99   2064584    2031168    2159210    2291939      11.01   10.33

 CHINA P        2694175   2046133     279723     467403     67.09   2577374    2046133    2163894    2233813     -13.33   10.07

 CANADA         2297149   1369185     213838     146685    -31.40   2143738    1369185    1406472    1302032     -39.26    5.87

 TURKEY         1319875    511213     107014     171348     60.12   1210677     511213     555176     575547     -52.46    2.60

 VIETNAM         162898    347525          0      80933       *      127618     347525     387442     428458     235.73    1.93

 THAILND         615237    427570      93773      77688    -17.15    642997     427570     425842     411485     -36.01    1.86

 CHINA T         786003    339453        106      29372  27609.43    603150     339453     348413     368719     -38.87    1.66

 ROMANIA         416348    342150      53018      32344    -38.99    393969     342150     310671     321476     -18.40    1.45

 MEXICO          572862    255011      74502      27775    -62.72    538493     255011     228545     208284     -61.32    0.94

 PHIL R          267782    114685          0      48063       *      243185     114685     131636     162748     -33.08    0.73

 MALAYSA         155340    157482      18676      18144     -2.85    174016     157482     157482     156950      -9.81    0.71

 KOR REP         108191    119615      27638      11844    -57.15    135829     119615     100087     103821     -23.56    0.47

 GERMANY         821659     52722         15      39350  262236.7    674028      52722      80085      92057     -86.34    0.42

 PAKISTN         164913     36793      17463       4491    -74.28    182376      36793      41284      23821     -86.94    0.11


 _ASEAN        14793318  13414153    1805512    2764733     53.13  14086174   13414153   14097198   14373374       2.04   64.81