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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 646:  W/G MMF SWEATERS
                     Data in Doz., 30.80 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         10771815   4481523     125245     194348     55.17   4648975    4481523    4513404    4550626      -2.12  100.00

 CHINA P        5304172   2889060      57945     126212    117.81   2167375    2889060    2928252    2957327      36.45   64.99

 BNGLDSH        2304139    869504      20100      21564      7.28   1169470     869504     865887     870968     -25.52   19.14

 INDNSIA         626859    168903       8588       1806    -78.97    231409     168903     162335     162121     -29.94    3.56

 JORDAN          214227    122863          0          *       *      139243     122863     122863     122863     -11.76    2.70

 GUATMAL         138871     86054        234       6682   2755.56     50145      86054      92455      92502      84.47    2.03

 CHINA T         462471     77086       3883       4027      3.71    170552      77086      75437      77230     -54.72    1.70

 SALVADR         120202     64219      11512      11121     -3.40     75688      64219      65892      63828     -15.67    1.40

 MEXICO           97858     44534      10603      10052     -5.20     42648      44534      41219      43983       3.13    0.97

 VIETNAM         116535     26220        601       2371    294.51     26576      26220      27883      27990       5.32    0.62

 CAMBOD           41057     18913          0       1341       *       31653      18913      19136      20254     -36.01    0.45

 ISRAEL           30684     19920        160        346    116.25      2690      19920      20082      20106     647.43    0.44

 THAILND         117943     12723        346        209    -39.60     51063      12723      12593      12586     -75.35    0.28

 HG KONG         834886      7575       1982       1011    -48.99    348591       7575       6219       6604     -98.11    0.15

 MAURIT               4        74          2          8    300.00         2         74         82         80    3900.00    0.00

 LESOTHO              0         0          0         68       *           0          *         68         68        *      0.00


 _ASEAN          983707    233720       9561       6775    -29.14    354088     233720     229941     230934     -34.78    5.07

 _CBI            261620    151934      11746      17803     51.57    127324     151934     160008     157991      24.09    3.47

 _CAFTA          261436    151934      11746      17803     51.57    127320     151934     160008     157991      24.09    3.47