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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 859:  OTHER SILK / NON-COT. VEG APPAREL
                     Data in Kg.., 12.50 M2 per Kg. . 

                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          1693421   1882356     284554     290363      2.04   1716518    1882356    1901336    1888165      10.00  100.00

 CHINA P        1193180   1220720     193188     213612     10.57   1221202    1220720    1254561    1241144       1.63   65.73

 INDIA            52251     87497       9018      22298    147.26     45048      87497      93626     100777     123.71    5.34

 HONDURA          24703     88120      10207       1712    -83.23     34910      88120      81474      79625     128.09    4.22

 MEXICO           74452     65236      13418       6184    -53.91     76623      65236      61248      58002     -24.30    3.07

 ITALY            44241     60352      13766       7273    -47.17     50849      60352      55976      53859       5.92    2.85

 TURKEY            6225     50227       1728        836    -51.60      6838      50227      49634      49335     621.49    2.61

 CANADA           45854     55980      13704          *       *       56078      55980      49366      42276     -24.61    2.24

 CHINA T          38498     31362       6922       1491    -78.46     43860      31362      27489      25931     -40.88    1.37

 PAKISTN           1948     23783        217        966    345.16      2158      23783      24430      24532    1036.79    1.30

 THAILND          25653     19209       2035       5710    180.61     26697      19209      21376      22884     -14.28    1.21

 INDNSIA          30100     17612       1450       6175    325.86     18895      17612      17330      22337      18.22    1.18

 PHIL R            1430     19470        881       2072    135.19      2282      19470      19268      20661     805.39    1.09

 VIETNAM          19763     18584       3513       4914     39.88     22799      18584      19852      19985     -12.34    1.06

 KOR REP          20887     20575       1727        698    -59.61     18093      20575      19538      19546       8.03    1.04

 COLOMB           15025     15492        882       2177    146.83     13339      15492      15846      16787      25.85    0.89


 _ASEAN           81098     83300       9413      21312    126.42     76077      83300      88318      95199      25.14    5.04

 _CBI             36750    101651      12220       3951    -67.67     42349     101651      94551      93382     120.51    4.95

 _CAFTA           36650    101536      12205       3312    -72.86     42234     101536      94451      92643     119.36    4.91

 _ANDEAN          16882     17031       1082       2242    107.21     15358      17031      17365      18191      18.45    0.96