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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 359:  OTHER COTTON APPAREL
                                                      Data in Kg..

(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                   2785933   2859785   2956301       |   3136416         .     1418994   1415369   1240328   1519486   1588013   1477453   1577001

 China                    987638    887053   1356922       |   1410981         .      616739    540781    611577    646242    765398    699877    722849

 Pakistan                 637090    718378    563687       |    646957         .      289664    315873    187591    349909    286410    291871    287050

 Mexico                   338782    374377    311077       |    301831         .      191329    158833     79440    166734    146990    141951    194314

 India                    198425    230088    134969       |    184641         .       48416     45460     56167     77401     77707     86535    104447

 Vietnam                  103314    171544    159429       |    182122         .       65064     84653     71668     74595     99686     90311     36507

 Cambodia                 128396     61781    170352       |    106292         .       38524     67777     94751     79722     68078     39417     49099

 Bangladesh                52565     52089     53357       |     71677         .       44338     48205     38637     20464     29855     27819     62429

 Indonesia                 42268     60302     20982       |     54807         .       29278     11749      4525     17399     13787     27410     21705

 Philippines               42697     23789     45366       |     40369         .       15367     10686     28446     20205     11212     22449     21393

 Taiwan                     6309     27900     34911       |     16037         .       17134      5054     23007     14110      5123      8880     15519

 Thailand                  14870      9961      9151       |     15899         .        5995      4083      3705      6564     11754      5012      5804

 Kenya                      2599       160         0       |     10438         .          12        25         .         .     10434        14         .

 Hong Kong                 13620      2810      1454       |      9741         .         845      6801       289       672      2449       484      7740

 Jordan                    15889      7143     16943       |      7792         .        2730     82160      3326      5950     15377      2196      1623

 Brazil                     7063      7528       823       |      7490         .        6104      1663      3505        10      3223       527      7598

 _ASEAN                   344650    335308    405281       |    399900         .      154269    179274    203251    198486    204582    184939    134515

 _CBI                      83907    100430     20918       |     23246         .       13568     13851     14913     13213     11369     13862     16639

 _CAFTA                    83456    100430     20918       |     23213         .       13568     13851     14913     13212     11368     13862     16133

 _SUB-SAHARA               13196     15942      2728       |     14218         .       12929      2689       870      1272     11272      3269       830

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             2923     10960      7646       |      2186         .         974      2410      2553      4773      1409       972      2439