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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 645/646 :  M-MF SWEATERS
                                            Data in Doz , 30.80 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      5025900   4799099      139258     254085     82.46    4974773    4799099    4873621    4913926     -1.22  100.00

 O  CHINA P    2283387   3010294       65127     186189    185.89    2267174    3010294    3099745    3131356     38.12   63.72

 O  BNGLDSH    1261091    918526       20519      16516    -19.51    1264483     918526     909736     914523    -27.68   18.61

 O  INDNSIA     263293    178289        8588       5744    -33.11     259011     178289     171982     175445    -32.26    3.57

 O  JORDAN      159031    143245           0          1       *       158993     143245     143245     143246     -9.90    2.92

 O  GUATMAL      59921     86309         236       4534   1821.19      50424      86309      90560      90607     79.69    1.84

 O  CHINA T     180803     81333        4127       4021     -2.57     177784      81333      79435      81227    -54.31    1.65

 O  SALVADR      71513     69119       11615      11192     -3.64      78628      69119      70811      68696    -12.63    1.40

 O  MEXICO       69269     62335       11953      11089     -7.23      66438      62335      59566      61471     -7.48    1.25

 O  EGYPT        21539     58478        1684        162    -90.38      22549      58478      58023      56956    152.59    1.16

 O  THAILND      58127     20952         851        194    -77.20      54853      20952      20735      20295    -63.00    0.41

 O  HG KONG     372154      7949        2113        919    -56.51     353580       7949       6359       6755    -98.09    0.14


 O  _ASEAN      402756    256435       10999      10768     -2.10     393315     256435     252334     256204    -34.86    5.21

 O  _CBI        133541    159676       11851      15726     32.70     130828     159676     165619     163551     25.01    3.33

 O  _CAFTA      133308    159601       11851      15726     32.70     130766     159601     165544     163476     25.01    3.33