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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |         Preliminary  2/2009 Data        |
                                          |            By Merged-Category           |
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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 845/846 :  SWEATERS - SILK & VE
                                            Data in Doz , 30.80 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)


 O  WORLD      1372069    930555      169382     107139    -36.75    1335881     930555     908138     868312    -35.00  100.00

 O  CHINA P    1330790    892746      165225     100180    -39.37    1304246     892746     869828     827701    -36.54   95.32