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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