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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 614:  MMF POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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         45048846  38382860    6599178    7246561      9.81  42197999   38382860   38422892   39030243      -7.51  100.00

 CHINA P       28342829  24612652    4624869    5236378     13.22  27267815   24612652   24618366   25224161      -7.49   64.63

 PAKISTN        4435881   4062163     423515     482494     13.93   4288572    4062163    4105146    4121142      -3.90   10.56

 THAILND        3136195   2840191     682015     412939    -39.45   2718373    2840191    2841461    2571115      -5.42    6.59

 MALAYSA        3206019   1834558     222832     366287     64.38   2600599    1834558    1830395    1978013     -23.94    5.07

 INDNSIA        2161493   1110865      92667     238226    157.08   1578230    1110865    1160736    1256424     -20.39    3.22

 INDIA           123113   1232198      75625       1199    -98.41    198593    1232198    1157772    1157772     482.99    2.97


 _ASEAN         8503707   5785614     997514    1017452      2.00   6897202    5785614    5832592    5805552     -15.83   14.87