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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