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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 615:  MMF PRINTCLOTH 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                     38652    545557    177732       |    180241    208184       13169    131944    175871     40149      8215     55130    146729

 China                      1650    129151    133423       |    135245    200117        2380    125017    136271         .         .     55090    146330

 India                      5972         0         0       |     30773      7583           .         .      1063     29710      7543        40         .

 Pakistan                      0     90770     37240       |      5633         .       10599      6385     30855      5633         .         .         .

 Taiwan                    24978     79354         0       |      4842       274           .         .         .      4718       124         .       319

 Korea, South               2631       188         0       |      1704         .           .         .      1704         .         .         .         .

 Japan                         0         0      5242       |      1559         .           .         .      5242        88         .         .         .

 Israel                        0         0         0       |       217         .           .         .         .         .       217         .         .

 Italy                        54       886       878       |       197         .         190        35       665         .       129         .         .

 Spain                      3068     14123         0       |        71         .           .         .        71         .         .         .        15

 Canada                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Mexico                        0    125650         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 El Salvador                   0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Brazil                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Finland                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 Denmark                       0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _ASEAN                      276    105435       407       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .        57

 _CBI                          0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .

 _CAFTA                        0         0         0       |         .         .           .         .         .         .         .         .         .