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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 800: SILK BLENDS OR NON-CTN VEG FIB YRN
Data in Kg.., 8.50 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 1813251 745414 59028 60677 2.79 1310239 745414 769112 747063 -42.98 100.00
CHINA P 124051 236411 20521 9980 -51.37 133339 236411 232787 225870 69.40 30.23
INDIA 134378 163388 329 37147 11190.88 133703 163388 200018 200206 49.74 26.80
FRANCE 65965 84111 3242 488 -84.95 54131 84111 82385 81357 50.30 10.89
AUSTRIA 128973 53499 0 * * 107702 53499 53499 53499 -50.33 7.16
HUNGARY 89763 36981 3977 483 -87.86 80940 36981 33343 33487 -58.63 4.48
BELGIUM 16061 29081 2347 1067 -54.54 15948 29081 28226 27801 74.32 3.72
PHIL R 218 26240 0 * * 218 26240 26240 26240 11936.70 3.51
ROMANIA 56578 21483 2127 2679 25.95 58144 21483 21226 22035 -62.10 2.95
LITHUAN 36709 18846 0 * * 36709 18846 18846 18846 -48.66 2.52
GERMANY 4724 26826 10351 23 -99.78 14999 26826 26832 16498 9.99 2.21
CHINA T 13619 11443 770 3357 336.01 12251 11443 14218 14030 14.52 1.88
ITALY 17579 11469 5821 432 -92.58 16979 11469 6010 6080 -64.19 0.81
BRAZIL 967705 38 0 22 * 501349 38 44 60 -99.99 0.01
PORTUGL 65438 0 0 * * 65438 * * * * *
PAKISTN 37147 0 0 * * 37147 * * * * *
_ASEAN 2613 26240 0 5 * 2613 26240 26245 26245 904.40 3.51