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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 624:  WOVEN MMF FABRIC, 15% < WOOL <36%
                                                      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                    147344    160268    143904       |    142492         .       59781     62940    100071     76776     57005     29462    122343

 Mexico                   116784     98080     53856       |     90240         .       23783     15152     39929     25484     48818     15901     62672

 China                     10579      2523     67877       |     39372         .       23173     30545     42496     39654      3658      3049     34792

 Taiwan                        0     13028      8879       |      7683         .           .     10205      8879      8879         .      7683     20675

 Italy                      3141      2397      4443       |      3192         .        3948      1130      4606       551      1272      1587       833

 Switzerland                  42       746       188       |      1146         .           .       792         .       188         .      1052       270

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |       321         .           .        68         .         .       139         .       182

 India                      6479         0      2850       |       176         .           .      3476      3439         .      2850         .      1581

 Lebanon                       .         .         .       |       151         .           .         .         .         .         .       151         .

 United Kingdom              529        75        13       |        79         .          52       216       300        16         .         .        97

 Germany                       0         0        60       |        53         .           .        76        66         .        30         .        54

 Japan                         0       199        29       |        25         .         118         .         .        29        25         .         .

 Spain                         0        76       193       |        20         .           .         .       196         .         .        11         .

 France                      305       780       305       |        17         .           .        41         .       105       162        17       360

 Canada                     8384         0      3140       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Dominican Republic           52         0         0       |         .         .        8602         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .        35         .         .

 _CBI                         52         0         0       |         .         .        8602         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                       52         0         0       |         .         .        8602         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              524         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .       816

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .       379         .         .         .         .         .