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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 631:  MMF GLOVES AND MITTENS
                                                      Data in Dpr.

(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                   1359309    865518   1421558       |   1667779         .      923295    684713    718724    763889    738013    724305   1090317

 China                    824257    419710    921359       |    970969         .      634045    465647    488658    561156    424611    436308    597953

 Mexico                   149975    117369    116977       |    181483         .       67524     39887     27042     47164     74233     80129    123901

 Korea, South              80392     63954     90892       |    107844         .       36290     52177     44407     41346     32006     37225    101483

 Pakistan                  65875     38159     29803       |     83292         .       30581     16334     26093     14771     15071     34081     62342

 Sri Lanka                 43677     20616     32862       |     64091         .       28002     17558     10487     16797     30114     30611     35991

 Malaysia                  44642     43498     33806       |     59254         .       22600        96     23311      6221     43484      9449      8521

 Vietnam                   44849     62110     49459       |     51979         .       23659     32390     26575     25686     11411     23499     33135

 Bangladesh                    0     17600      3900       |     37502         .       31800        18         .      3900     52603         .     46602

 Taiwan                    22458     13673     56954       |     32684         .       15453     29864     32078     15047     12486     25582     39391

 Hong Kong                 13631     10108     30333       |     31795         .        4786         .     13089      7854     17416     12274     15285

 Philippines               33781     16338     24788       |     23785         .       13306     12863     12345     16805      4036     19750      8330

 Indonesia                  7054     28058     19485       |     10812         .        8170      5498     10461      6486      7488      7463     11417

 Honduras                  13013      3421      8675       |      8821         .        4308      5021      2824         .     10496      5138      3766

 Australia                    90         0         0       |      1351         .           .        20         .         .         .      1351         .

 Hungary                       0         0         1       |      1002         .         258        90         .         .         .      1002      1464

 _ASEAN                   130338    152666    127544       |    145830         .       68254     51148     72692     55209     68511     60161     61403

 _CBI                      13013      3421      8675       |      8833         .        4310      5021      2824         .     10496      5150      3766

 _CAFTA                    13013      3421      8675       |      8833         .        4310      5021      2824         .     10496      5150      3766

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)            10375       224        78       |        28         .          95         .        20         .        52         .        47

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