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                                          |                BI-WEEKLY                |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                                 March 4, 2010
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |               By Category               |
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                                           Category 317:  COTTON TWILL FABRIC
                                                      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                  1/2009    2/2010   12/2010       |   1/2010    2/2011       12/12     12/26      1/09      1/23      2/06      2/20      3/06
                                                                 (P)       (P)          (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)       (P)
 World                   5981889   3894669   4614143       |   7040675   6474227     2111202   2068873   2661463   3887935   3465319   2831485   2599360

 China                   2928785   1490945   2553667       |   4729109   4104617     1400419   1064402   1490112   2579839   2757984   1624557   1613821

 Pakistan                1489511    817868    652824       |   1098609    996519      198024    349342    731145    469607    379182    330807    583014

 Taiwan                   543317    491318    240778       |    356120    657409       57890    182364    171037    293923    101617    457550    111347

 India                    254440     35405    322389       |    327512    256815      129836    161322     52108    256902     32575    151992     96879

 Hong Kong                  2301      4061       947       |    105875       585         664       337     99670      6205         .       585         .

 Turkey                    34490      6268     41118       |     73400     45323       16612     25811     16542     56992     19040     21981     10901

 Japan                     32724     66349     77335       |     66841     92946       24468     54309     19045     52167     22506     71019     16465

 Thailand                  98360     48732    182389       |     63926     59577      144622     37780     12757     51152        17     59200     47649

 Bahrain                  232339    198685    102570       |     43456         .           .    102570         .     43456         .         .         .

 Italy                     69658    132374     28297       |     41070     13898       13595      9433     24033      6892     20168     10187     26039

 Korea, South              18683     36260     50369       |     31325     54193       22346     30444     14629     15687     17604     36296      7972

 Germany                   71535    379325      6765       |     30872     44461          41      6565     12355     16894      7331        66     39476

 United Arab Emirates          0         0         0       |     23781      7360           .         .         .         .     23781      7360         .

 Vietnam                       0      8939         0       |     17741     12381           .         .         .     17741         .     12381       210

 Peru                       3666       533     27185       |     15130     20522       21835         .         .     15130         .     20477        45

 _ASEAN                   101449     57671    192288       |     81667     81044      144622     47679     12757     68893      2298     73849     52396

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             3666       533     27185       |     15130     20522       21835         .         .     15130         .     20477        45

 _CBI                          0     13041     57920       |         .     54335       52471      5449        41         .     54335         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0     13041     57920       |         .     54335       52471      5449        41         .     54335         .         .

 _SUB-SAHARA                1250         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .