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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 641:  W/G NOT-KNIT MMF SHIRTS / BLOUSES
                                                      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                   1070960   1097756   1290240       |   1258807         .      431714    480438    469584    728595    615440    643440    597263

 China                    485766    438171    740431       |    639861         .      257497    258603    282633    396516    339437    334556    309316

 Indonesia                193974    246364    223966       |    256794         .       53732     89172     67284    150861     91484    140587    120690

 Vietnam                   83485     81739    107418       |    120148         .       21602     45505     34656     52864     57747     66882     38102

 India                     60997     72221     53313       |     52952         .       16777     15966     17257     32406     29350     22150     23840

 Mexico                    55219     51947     28280       |     32493         .       14667     12511      5389     14792     17755     14586     17819

 Bangladesh                43189     27104     31645       |     25725         .        7219      7315     20407     10896     16393     11012     11340

 Philippines               26131     27381     14925       |     24375         .        5429      3420      2475     13183     14208      8530     15140

 Honduras                  17714     19388     13299       |     15599         .       12389     11195      1208      8380      9387      7072      8677

 Cambodia                   3663      4337     12512       |     14302         .        4805       942      4406     10211      5462      4889      5308

 El Salvador                8994     10765      7227       |      9382         .        4014      5083      2323      3120      5634      4456      4303

 Egypt                      9866     22464      8313       |      7835         .        4042      4258      4416      4554      5008      3193      5341

 Guatemala                  5391      7862      6867       |      7486         .        2948      1692      2243      2888      3153      3203      5415

 Haiti                     13077     10626      3556       |      7369         .        6642      4418      3722      3394         .      1309      6909

 Dominican Republic         6689      5974      1531       |      7355         .        3560      3077      3051      1954       835      4496      3604

 Pakistan                   3904      5614      5811       |      5999         .        1228      2226       514      4613      1541      2764      6976

 _ASEAN                   311520    363525    363329       |    421763         .       87367    139317    110221    230179    172614    223546    181034

 _CBI                      61279     66809     34845       |     53743         .       31881     28704     14177     21891     21310     23839     31244

 _CAFTA                    48139     56134     31289       |     46374         .       25100     24285     10455     18497     21310     22530     24335

 _SUB-SAHARA                9259     21508      6529       |      3769         .        4793      3724      1961      4240      3987         .       875

 _ANDEAN (ATPA)             1547      1192       365       |       929         .          94       338        10       254       242       486       368