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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 447:  M/B WOOL TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                     Data in Doz., 15.00 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          1353758   1169428     228091     152072    -33.33   1352609    1169428    1119401    1093409     -19.16  100.00

 MEXICO          203140    175071      29523      18825    -36.24    201611     175071     169608     164373     -18.47   15.03

 CHINA P         176601    146563      26764      17747    -33.69    158006     146563     138834     137546     -12.95   12.58

 INDIA           183125    113219      23817      12642    -46.92    173262     113219     103043     102044     -41.10    9.33

 INDNSIA         117068     96061      18481      13860    -25.00    120058      96061      96956      91440     -23.84    8.36

 EGYPT            10606     55664       5419      33008    509.12     15330      55664      66826      83253     443.07    7.61

 VIETNAM          70555     95331      26650      12815    -51.91     86207      95331      82700      81496      -5.46    7.45

 COLOMB           79311     84831      19299      12812    -33.61     80705      84831      82258      78344      -2.93    7.17

 CANADA          101272     98987      24094          *       *      107929      98987      89929      74893     -30.61    6.85

 ITALY           106475     78535      11802       7536    -36.14    104264      78535      75769      74269     -28.77    6.79

 JORDAN           41127     46279       7302       3757    -48.55     45011      46279      44533      42734      -5.06    3.91

 BNGLDSH          21671     42228       8178        947    -88.42     27700      42228      35425      34997      26.34    3.20

 DOM REP          45209     22853       3654       2505    -31.44     40303      22853      22458      21704     -46.15    1.98

 TURKEY           55199     20116       4246       1273    -70.02     51269      20116      19212      17143     -66.56    1.57

 THAILND          22764     13531        791       2664    236.79     21295      13531      14600      15404     -27.66    1.41

 ROMANIA          12263     10752       1371       1008    -26.48     11950      10752      10674      10389     -13.06    0.95


 _ASEAN          223391    220579      50973      30501    -40.16    242401     220579     206554     200107     -17.45   18.30

 _ANDEAN          79924     84960      19340      17657     -8.70     81309      84960      87189      83277       2.42    7.62

 _CBI             62705     36927       5729       3598    -37.20     58870      36927      36497      34796     -40.89    3.18

 _CAFTA           62705     36515       5729       3130    -45.37     58870      36515      35752      33916     -42.39    3.10