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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