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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 640:  M/B NOT-KNIT MMF SHIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 20.10 M2 per Doz . 

                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          9566217   7342264    1623631    1212544    -25.32   9271714    7342264    7094240    6931177     -25.24  100.00

 CHINA P        1913694   1646445     448699     315204    -29.75   1860668    1646445    1550132    1512950     -18.69   21.83

 HONDURA        1277547   1196506     184182     149066    -19.07   1280732    1196506    1188821    1161390      -9.32   16.76

 BNGLDSH        1095407    784516     193557     178568     -7.74   1077868     784516     769793     769527     -28.61   11.10

 MEXICO          898778    720041      99153      93311     -5.89    844609     720041     719099     714199     -15.44   10.30

 VIETNAM         857441    660617     177491     141095    -20.51    856423     660617     637495     624221     -27.11    9.01

 INDNSIA         649065    499548      95842     108479     13.18    598840     499548     520568     512185     -14.47    7.39

 DOM REP         307356    329792      37862      24770    -34.58    298643     329792     325487     316700       6.05    4.57

 NICARAG         505644    331103      55674      36977    -33.58    471783     331103     320583     312406     -33.78    4.51

 HAITI           113018    122192      13583      22340     64.47    113888     122192     131252     130949      14.98    1.89

 SALVADR         104723    118574      23836      25903      8.67    109287     118574     115033     120641      10.39    1.74

 EGYPT           258122    131774      39009      17762    -54.47    250299     131774     115423     110527     -55.84    1.59

 KOR REP         477366    144600      60765       9696    -84.04    417149     144600     117098      93531     -77.58    1.35

 MADAGAS         129064    101513      21304       9407    -55.84    124211     101513      90272      89616     -27.85    1.29

 INDIA           166737     97020      32765      16110    -50.83    169068      97020      81702      80365     -52.47    1.16

 SRI LKA         102871     88820      30720      12749    -58.50    114773      88820      79028      70849     -38.27    1.02


 _CBI           2341981   2116996     319559     261806    -18.07   2305847    2116996    2097782    2059243     -10.69   29.71

 _CAFTA         2227613   1994757     305970     239426    -21.75   2190604    1994757    1966483    1928213     -11.98   27.82

 _ASEAN         1884749   1328899     338007     273684    -19.03   1837864    1328899    1305769    1264576     -31.19   18.24

 _SUB-SAHARA     212049    127690      26802      17954    -33.01    195143     127690     118567     118842     -39.10    1.71

 _ANDEAN          37545     30235       4565       3097    -32.16     35085      30235      28869      28767     -18.01    0.42