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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |         Preliminary  2/2010 Data        |
                                          |            By Merged-Category           |
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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 342/642 :  SKIRTS
                                            Data in Doz , 14.90 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)


 O  WORLD     15580756  15842705     2951925    3192703      8.16   14948713   15842705   15809392   16083483      7.59  100.00

 O  CHINA P    7201936   6674157     1217864    1307487      7.36    6708206    6674157    6608184    6763780      0.83   42.05

 O  INDIA      1339371   1954777      370874     367541     -0.90    1397371    1954777    1933743    1951444     39.65   12.13

 O  VIETNAM    1375289   1592781      309621     387640     25.20    1406090    1592781    1644140    1670800     18.83   10.39

 O  INDNSIA    1501216   1536022      255525     385694     50.94    1468548    1536022    1558999    1666191     13.46   10.36

 O  BNGLDSH     837540   1163323      185861     159797    -14.02     824622    1163323    1165689    1137259     37.91    7.07

 O  CAMBOD      368281    473031       84302     101510     20.41     377679     473031     463964     490239     29.80    3.05

 O  GUATMAL     400455    393279       70506      77924     10.52     376574     393279     400542     400697      6.41    2.49

 O  PHIL R      316392    333004       92188      66905    -27.43     365941     333004     326828     307721    -15.91    1.91

 O  SRI LKA     292762    304261       57748      48656    -15.74     278899     304261     302677     295169      5.83    1.84

 O  MEXICO      255851    243687       59353      40112    -32.42     253591     243687     229833     224446    -11.49    1.40

 O  HONDURA     246893    121435       18766      55950    198.15     194394     121435     141719     158619    -18.40    0.99

 O  THAILND     244518    156819       34980      34238     -2.12     221452     156819     153286     156077    -29.52    0.97

 O  CHINA T     150592    108039       25236      30235     19.81     145290     108039     108938     113038    -22.20    0.70

 O  MALAYSA     126692     98393       33063      26491    -19.88     109662      98393      94151      91821    -16.27    0.57

 O  EGYPT        63232    101331       30326      14123    -53.43      73643     101331     100209      85128     15.60    0.53


 O  _ASEAN     3982910   4217505      819959    1003447     22.38    3994165    4217505    4263346    4400993     10.19   27.36

 O  _CBI        839277    643500      100149     164254     64.01     720151     643500     678564     707605     -1.74    4.40

 O  _CAFTA      836716    640685      100008     164149     64.14     717953     640685     675810     704826     -1.83    4.38