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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                March 16, 2010
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary  2/2010 Data |
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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 335:  W/G COTTON COATS
                     Data in Doz., 34.50 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)

 WORLD         18009364  14993090    2117638    2080243     -1.77  17561475   14993090   14924451   14955695     -14.84  100.00

 CHINA P       10545001   8087735    1156266    1136315     -1.73  10079639    8087735    8041551    8067784     -19.96   53.94

 VIETNAM        1622062   1739257     195897     293283     49.71   1578598    1739257    1808044    1836643      16.35   12.28

 INDNSIA        1457265   1507200     209514     193584     -7.60   1531694    1507200    1496039    1491270      -2.64    9.97

 CAMBOD          559171    758446      56343      97520     73.08    545330     758446     767485     799623      46.63    5.35

 INDIA           544996    456465      79314      62400    -21.33    531728     456465     445703     439551     -17.34    2.94

 PAKISTN         438195    438733      62146      46251    -25.58    457232     438733     436816     422838      -7.52    2.83

 BNGLDSH         498030    426507     105062      63349    -39.70    549608     426507     392386     384794     -29.99    2.57

 SRI LKA         284383    236215      36530      25554    -30.05    269234     236215     231905     225239     -16.34    1.51

 GUATMAL         159053    203700      14909      10613    -28.81    156243     203700     200616     199404      27.62    1.33

 PHIL R          330796    212440      46205      30722    -33.51    324053     212440     197840     196957     -39.22    1.32

 SALVADR          50596    122537       3451       4986     44.48     51755     122537     123271     124072     139.73    0.83

 JORDAN          164795    127622      52672      43775    -16.89    203970     127622     118926     118725     -41.79    0.79

 HONDURA         219318     95188       2287       1002    -56.19    220992      95188      93335      93903     -57.51    0.63

 MEXICO          108480     91556       6275       8373     33.43     98100      91556      94570      93654      -4.53    0.63

 THAILND         147567    104232      23718       8820    -62.81    147358     104232      96090      89334     -39.38    0.60


 _ASEAN         4315620   4400265     545840     635888     16.50   4322236    4400265    4442819    4490313       3.89   30.02

 _CBI            440818    428659      21454      17939    -16.38    440886     428659     424801     425144      -3.57    2.84

 _CAFTA          440540    428609      21454      17939    -16.38    440608     428609     424751     425094      -3.52    2.84

 _SUB-SAHARA      59699     31297       2814       3804     35.18     58279      31297      32037      32287     -44.60    0.22

 _ANDEAN          25588     11125       1440       2923    102.96     21064      11125      12053      12608     -40.15    0.08