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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 342:  COTTON SKIRTS
                                                      Data in Doz.

(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                   1127143   1277687    889980       |   1163354         .      411460    313403    390446    495328    562272    573079    583507

 China                    434477    350077    370738       |    444554         .      212914    116979    139405    182525    214184    209717    253212

 India                    184461    288157    134553       |    193908         .       34992     34029     49770     73941    107410    105932     72125

 Indonesia                 74029    119962     99561       |    164227         .       40162     50014     38149     73609     69064     67207     82469

 Vietnam                  115582     92559     98395       |    104262         .       43253     22507     64749     65009     36329     71724     50791

 Bangladesh               114524    176474     62832       |     86614         .       25943     24948     24738     38515     32100     41208     43650

 Cambodia                  25923     38361     27590       |     53466         .       18698      8000     10377     15519     37977     22019     23242

 Sri Lanka                 31020     17725     12219       |     20890         .        5882      2386      7309      3904     18810      9031      8463

 El Salvador                 476      2234      5634       |     14404         .          10        77      1210      3204      6895      5335      6503

 Malaysia                  14018      5056     10474       |     11251         .        3512      5005      3405      7553      3564      7592      1772

 Philippines               35449     23227     22965       |     11241         .        3456     22784     12892      7909      9007      4852      8317

 Honduras                  16783     45046      1242       |      9790         .        2142         .         .        11      3128      5848      2890

 Thailand                  16385     15472      5280       |      9710         .        3728      1180      1925      4596      3707      4191      5855

 Guatemala                 18873     36422      5974       |      7821         .         914      6804      1625      3876      2206      3869      6571

 Mexico                     7691     11035      4839       |      6898         .        2077      1965      6143      1115      4042      2956      5081

 Pakistan                   5203      5426      4443       |      4222         .        2158       372       731      3596      1262      3001      1481

 _ASEAN                   285823    300123    264429       |    354468         .      112809    109500    131720    174356    159649    177796    172546

 _CBI                      36726     97715     14457       |     32195         .        3211     14990      4337      7091     12336     15145     16050

 _CAFTA                    36725     97629     14457       |     32110         .        3211     14990      4337      7091     12336     15109     16001

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1797      1637       464       |      1826         .         150       384       596       238       333      1157       847

 _SUB-SAHARA                 165      5922      2157       |       676         .        5688      1239      2098      2155       233       433       178