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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 448:  W/G WOOL SLACKS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                                                      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                  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                     18327     11251     18659       |     20283     15718        9943      7522      8087      9489     11681      7061      7525

 China                      6141      3312      7115       |      8825      6563        3163      3904      4354      4160      5621      3695      1390

 Thailand                    956      2127       158       |      4547       272           .         .       153      2458      2356         .       742

 Philippines                3427      1378      2339       |      1327      2103         860      1103       715       516      1198       507      1069

 Vietnam                     678       465       759       |      1303      1644         737       233      1342        53        22      1493       886

 Italy                       669       535       552       |       674      2404         338       370       264       408       413       532      1690

 Colombia                    518       214       350       |       594         .         119       252         .       296       301         .         .

 El Salvador                 421       414        90       |       371       167         210         .         .       296       100        50       169

 Mexico                      416       374       266       |       358       614         184        97       171       219        97       260       440

 Bangladesh                   17         0       495       |       238       198           .       495         .         .       340         .       527

 Cambodia                      0         0       268       |       224         .           .         .       224         .         .         .         .

 India                        52      1002       644       |       193         .         644         .         .       192         .         .         .

 Turkey                      188       186       188       |       182       498         117       126       112        98       418        61        72

 Egypt                        18        10         0       |       177       208           .         .       178       177         .         .       208

 Poland                        2         3         6       |       141        20          12         .         .        11       130        16         .

 Switzerland                 166        93       199       |       123       103          36       145        13        91        90        32         .

 _ASEAN                     6358      3971      6757       |      7486      4040        3864      1360      2478      3084      3586      2013      2708

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)              518       214       363       |       598         .         133       252         .       297       302         .         .

 _CBI                        469       495       507       |       533       263         465        38       247       296       140       146       304

 _CAFTA                      469       495       507       |       533       263         465        38       247       296       140       146       304

 _SUB-SAHARA                   0         1         2       |       102         .           .         .         .       102         .         .         .