_________________________________________
| |
| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 5, 2009
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
| |
| By Category, Preliminary 2/2009 Data |
|_________________________________________|
(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