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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 621:  IMPRESSION FABRIC
                     Data in Kg.., 14.40 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           102741    108500       3290      20151    512.51     99880     108500     124973     125361      25.51  100.00

 CHINA P           3045     55175        416       6518   1466.93      3461      55175      59836      61277    1670.51   48.88