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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 348:  W/G COTTON TROUSERS/SLACKS/SHORTS
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                   8477761   9477856   9468276       |  10264638         .     4529705   3700723   4228538   5085590   4879658   4912409   5444074

 China                   2048039   2169061   3788179       |   3781339         .     1595650   1451203   1677984   1970285   1863894   1871650   1782397

 Bangladesh              1103162   1271159    686386       |   1112838         .      383567    378680    262966    400337    465601    548351    597868

 Vietnam                  948357    934130   1080204       |   1106969         .      437082    348643    519935    536899    548233    510754    618282

 Indonesia                619306    868156    732900       |    816716         .      319248    185747    292534    445934    360785    359499    484517

 Cambodia                 502730    584083    516639       |    571581         .      234649    183278    303061    281537    246172    287609    322668

 Mexico                   362233    348305    277567       |    363552         .      210483    148343     82585    165318    156022    189686    196766

 India                    491239    479015    372739       |    360982         .      201240    121475    163152    214424    199356    152005    189307

 Egypt                    285996    282972    318337       |    332761         .      132367    122872    147516    193848     98463    154084    205211

 Jordan                   122659    165409    146020       |    232007         .       69017     60444     80779     70645     73742     68620    140094

 Sri Lanka                250029    281422    250139       |    210712         .      100423     76918    127679    131637    128596     97979    104870

 Pakistan                 188613    207587    158484       |    174269         .       74934     75661    102997     82170     99048     85017     99853

 Nicaragua                210521    231304    148257       |    173233         .      105473    106654     42732    118684     88335     98116     87904

 Philippines              224159    175161    103518       |    150803         .       67160     48359     53909     48279     61542     76668    104309

 El Salvador               86065     83159     92994       |    116501         .       35591     37834     33500     27798     58031     71702     47743

 Guatemala                103100    165625     99888       |    115286         .       45317     42829     42142     50151     55856     62702     71166

 _ASEAN                  2421789   2732558   2515663       |   2710066         .     1084613    796021   1207451   1355589   1245523   1265609   1573538

 _CBI                     503924    699135    407632       |    523712         .      259564    240443    126047    219205    289190    287453    246568

 _CAFTA                   494175    693167    403166       |    505803         .      248365    224950    122239    216482    277430    281185    243302

 _SUB-SAHARA              330025    521780    319607       |    227082         .      321245    171368    175958    182973    103790     93762    182738

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            26213     25563     16914       |     38453         .       20979     13528     10176     10138     16843     16735     16113