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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 632:  MMF HOSIERY
                     Data in Dpr.,  3.80 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         96624683 105459669   15862224   18193849     14.70  98276353  105459669  108227071  107791294       9.68  100.00

 CHINA P       50819934  78777991   11233360   14426365     28.42  54936888   78777991   81971004   81970996      49.21   76.05

 CHINA T        8010354   4253034     787213     729794     -7.29   7547530    4253034    4143871    4195615     -44.41    3.89

 SALVADR        5100347   3682092     475832     480854      1.06   4633452    3682092    3724816    3687114     -20.42    3.42

 KOR REP       10220176   3739046     610694     447975    -26.64   9515426    3739046    3582503    3576327     -62.42    3.32

 MEXICO         4005891   2838066     417956     311977    -25.36   3815141    2838066    2772449    2732087     -28.39    2.53

 INDNSIA        1724700   2587013     573402     244366    -57.38   2108862    2587013    2555627    2257977       7.07    2.09

 ECUADOR        2117441   2021756     356229     388649      9.10   2141448    2021756    2117805    2054176      -4.08    1.91

 INDIA          1157352   1120266     184499     228244     23.71   1201149    1120266    1174844    1164011      -3.09    1.08

 COLOMB         1467978   1099482     253380     117983    -53.44   1444715    1099482    1066213     964085     -33.27    0.89

 C RICA          751045    647410      33272     129096    288.00    636608     647410     661421     743234      16.75    0.69

 PAKISTN         989388    750172     124420      74043    -40.49    982938     750172     714204     699795     -28.81    0.65

 VIETNAM        1244461    496229      50250     109650    118.21    984412     496229     555997     555629     -43.56    0.52

 HONDURA         241639    406961      52971     123912    133.92    272155     406961     417209     477902      75.60    0.44

 CAMBOD          820401    572619     150336      38898    -74.13    836599     572619     527442     461181     -44.87    0.43

 ITALY           958983    448982      83257      67833    -18.53    883854     448982     432966     433558     -50.95    0.40


 _CBI           6108349   4791467     590400     738882     25.15   5582850    4791467    4855419    4939949     -11.52    4.58

 _CAFTA         6100253   4790025     589018     738882     25.44   5574831    4790025    4855359    4939889     -11.39    4.58

 _ASEAN         8456510   4147314    1010794     447226    -55.75   8073864    4147314    3945000    3583746     -55.61    3.32

 _ANDEAN        3597920   3125715     610770     555294     -9.08   3596898    3125715    3200384    3070239     -14.64    2.85