While soybeans ($540 million) remain the highest value import, China's cotton imports ($276 million) from the United States follows soybeans at a distant second, which increase 155 percent.
Other commodity imports from the United States are also increasing by import value. These include certain hides and skins ($96 million), frozen chicken cuts and edible offal ($33 million), and certain sawn and sliced wood ($29 million).
Cotton not carded or combed imports for 2004, 2005 and 2006 stood at $777 million, $219 million and $816 million respectively for Jan-Feb period.
While, wool imports have significantly gone up from $95million in 2004 to $119 million in 2005 to $136 million in 2006 for Jan-Feb period, conveys the Gain Report.
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