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| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 5, 2009
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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| By Category, Preliminary 2/2009 Data |
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(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.
Category 226: CHEESECLOTH, BATISTES, LAWNS/VOILE
Data in M2.., 1.00 M2 per M2. .
Calendar Years Year-to-Date Year-Endings YE 2/2009
Country 2007 2008 2/2008 2/2009 % Change 2/2008 12/2008 1/2009 2/2009 % Change % Share
(P) (P)
WORLD 47134787 43890110 7450574 5100343 -31.54 44528448 43890110 42621748 41539879 -6.71 100.00
CHINA P 13846715 12353798 1737744 2746544 58.05 12786391 12353798 12642433 13362598 4.51 32.17
CANADA 11954355 10100109 2611157 * * 12285939 10100109 8750274 7488952 -39.04 18.03
INDIA 8297640 6815461 1082546 306650 -71.67 6493881 6815461 6053869 6039565 -7.00 14.54
PAKISTN 3971220 4929300 709140 277339 -60.89 3891078 4929300 4875771 4497499 15.58 10.83
MEXICO 967252 3546583 299504 699326 133.49 1266756 3546583 4212099 3946405 211.54 9.50
KOR REP 2165531 2534641 206163 490483 137.91 2049347 2534641 2445564 2818961 37.55 6.79
THAILND 1333258 759106 220992 157660 -28.66 1195864 759106 772945 695774 -41.82 1.67
MAURIT 398 0 0 * * 398 * * * * *
_ASEAN 1989985 799170 232931 394802 69.49 1830147 799170 963831 961041 -47.49 2.31