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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 432: WOOL HOSIERY
Data in Dpr., 2.30 M2 per Dpr .
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 924800 793872 48166 52313 8.61 829274 793872 807313 798019 -3.77 100.00
KOR REP 411353 236727 12200 11360 -6.89 343097 236727 239531 235887 -31.25 29.56
CHINA P 118169 167019 3486 16603 376.28 113948 167019 183448 180136 58.09 22.57
ITALY 105886 102045 4245 7112 67.55 97358 102045 105762 104912 7.76 13.15
MEXICO 21135 69730 7741 1909 -75.33 24489 69730 66260 63898 160.93 8.01
REP SAF 10241 42475 3703 1570 -57.60 12767 42475 42526 40342 215.99 5.06
U KING 50084 25198 2763 1413 -48.86 45229 25198 24661 23848 -47.27 2.99
_SUB-SAHARA 10241 42489 3703 1571 -57.57 12767 42489 42540 40357 216.10 5.06
_ANDEAN 30782 35213 2800 4939 76.39 30023 35213 35315 37352 24.41 4.68