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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 611:  WOVEN FABRIC >85% ARTIF STPLE
                                                      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                  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                    257720    213029   1009984       |   1704593         .      467118    359812    318250    563803    816835    723864    546712

 China                     94165     64490    550023       |   1116389         .      223382    234597    220939    336799    439590    488907    379381

 Korea, South              62341     33235    268616       |    348795         .      207231     84555     56508    152460    154727    203178    130942

 France                     1363       582       943       |    167870         .         832       375       142       288    167441       635       724

 Japan                     36966     44036     35636       |     40192         .       13167     12806      3536     28107     32684      8839      6315

 Indonesia                 20583     53033     42696       |     17154         .        9233     15531     15636     35749       762     15374      9584

 Italy                      4976     10456     16077       |      6891         .        3052      5549     11977      2378      8287      3284      2208

 India                        49        54      8542       |      2171         .        1296       840      7520      2353       849       924      1136

 Turkey                      566       149      2934       |      1961         .           .         .         .      1630       378      1022     14180

 Spain                       155        24     11834       |      1256         .        3011      4524       721        30     11182      1213         .

 United Kingdom            14966       637       925       |       414         .         268        82        32       271       469       145       257

 Belgium / Luxembourg          .         .         .       |       391         .         257       573         .       720       312        86       258

 Taiwan                      263      2198      2319       |       389         .        3609       168         .      2319        85         .       304

 Mexico                        0         0       330       |       354         .           .         .         .        30         .         .       354

 Germany                      14       144       351       |       173         .         139        69        64        70        61       113        60

 Thailand                    576       279      4419       |       146         .          22       122       606        35         .       121        20

 _ASEAN                    21159     53312     47115       |     17300         .        9255     15653     16242     35784       770     15495      9604

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)                0         0         0       |         .         .        1599         .         .         .         .         .         .

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