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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