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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                 March 4, 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 338:  M/B KNIT SHIRTS, COTTON
                     Data in Doz.,  6.00 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        377465624 166127649   25718793   25542896     -0.68 183916149  166127649  165384065  165951752      -9.77  100.00

 HONDURA       71450340  23015331    3750491    3723687     -0.71  33129340   23015331   22768671   22988527     -30.61   13.85

 HAITI         30784542  17783960    2306622     866115    -62.45  17211716   17783960   17152865   16343453      -5.04    9.85

 SALVADR       36192793  16422404    2938864    2781154     -5.37  19670605   16422404   16386890   16264694     -17.31    9.80

 CHINA P       18038785  14917269    1697588    2945383     73.50   9194131   14917269   15612537   16165064      75.82    9.74

 PAKISTN       28022743  12587771    2020348    2072643      2.59  13680573   12587771   12658302   12640066      -7.61    7.62

 INDIA         23451859  10468283    1833747    1968804      7.37  11181328   10468283   10518324   10603340      -5.17    6.39

 NICARAG       22240571  10088242    1373147    1541203     12.24  10757762   10088242   10149830   10256298      -4.66    6.18

 BNGLDSH       16922347   9859224    1359590    1267056     -6.81   9581886    9859224    9761681    9766690       1.93    5.89

 MEXICO        20577061   7788892    1082253    1257139     16.16   9785692    7788892    7839879    7963778     -18.62    4.80

 VIETNAM       13162475   7300811    1128194    1592048     41.11   7064916    7300811    7406096    7764665       9.90    4.68

 INDNSIA       13054488   7441316    1177376    1286799      9.29   6973090    7441316    7434617    7550739       8.28    4.55

 GUATMAL       11371976   5828995     895077     923695      3.20   5552605    5828995    5793877    5857613       5.49    3.53

 CAMBOD        12023082   4316629     846121     502360    -40.63   5879655    4316629    4073348    3972868     -32.43    2.39

 PERU           8039623   2915497     538120     455304    -15.39   3692821    2915497    2847576    2832681     -23.29    1.71

 EGYPT          5810608   2502423     395092     558961     41.48   2641968    2502423    2628219    2666292       0.92    1.61


 _CBI         176922271  74971667   11361819   10215083    -10.09  88214829   74971667   74146866   73824931     -16.31   44.49

 _CAFTA       145936873  57181312    9054325    9344795      3.21  70935910   57181312   56988332   57471782     -18.98   34.63

 _ASEAN        54010665  23961982    4146003    4050129     -2.31  26739486   23961982   23622532   23866108     -10.75   14.38

 _ANDEAN        9472467   3128758     586483     473159    -19.32   4117829    3128758    3046613    3015434     -26.77    1.82

 _SUB-SAHARA    7650122   2222249     487273     276871    -43.18   2977308    2222249    2023914    2011847     -32.43    1.21