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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 16, 2010
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 314:  COTTON POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FAB.
                                                      Data in M2..

(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.


                        ----------- Official Data -------- |  --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------| 
                                                    Monthly Data                          Two Weeks-ending Data  (2009-2010)     
                        --------------------------------------------------------   ---------------------------------------------------------------------   
 Country                  2/2009    3/2010    1/2010       |   2/2010    3/2010       12/12     12/26      1/09      1/23      2/06      2/20      3/06
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   5496567   8138025   9527529       |   9943531         .     6623810   4364891   4736221   4698739   5293415   4919061   4547998

 China                   3463659   4926492   5464468       |   5715439         .     3431165   2632321   2624872   2251008   3207310   3048506   2478491

 Pakistan                 341426   1265720   2120432       |   2383891         .     1757072    744724   1061068   1474783   1113050   1112276   1035335

 Indonesia                509883    372424    581557       |    664618         .      368275    323020    401907    354159    175184    378611    343522

 Korea, South             109324    118786    214650       |    251422         .      319251    296710    103669     46830    114584     97598    137439

 Thailand                  65335     80124     18376       |    210470         .       18203     53051       236     11242    202656     11717    166967

 Japan                    128519    193612     97019       |    174485         .      250846     38653     30973     62053     80470     25358    140220

 India                     44233    123917    166888       |    148478         .       55379    153749     73361     90712    136972     17326     53005

 Mexico                    92870    118665     98170       |    112100         .      220734         .         .     97847       323    112100    101223

 United Arab Emirates          0    333109    300228       |     88203         .       85896     62127    219595     21044    192247         .         .

 Germany                   61538      4329    137948       |     65787         .       45958      8966     31801    113894      2700     25216     37912

 Taiwan                   356416    526558    202097       |     35675         .        8787     12277    143688    114858      8017     22141     35644

 Malaysia                  15270     22911      8357       |     24195         .           .         .      6197      6398      7784     16411       141

 Hong Kong                     0         0     13825       |     16742         .         361         .         .     13825         .     16722        20

 Italy                     10595     23763     77036       |     16663         .       37865     11007     25173     29285     35042     14225      6984

 Philippines                   0         0         0       |     12047         .           .         .         .         .         .     12047         .

 _ASEAN                   593701    476745    608290       |    911931         .      387241    377581    408340    371799    385736    419275    510780

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0      4516         0       |         .         .        2012         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0       108      2826       |         .         .           .         .      2826       350         .         .         .