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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