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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 19, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary 10/2009 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.

Because this report contains data for HTS Chapters 50-63 only, the following categories may be incomplete or not 
appear at all:  201, 229, 239, 359, 362, 369, 439, 459, 469, 621, 622, 659, 666, 669, 670, 859, 870, 871 and 899.


                                           Category 200:  YARN FOR RETAIL SALE,SEWING THREAD
                     Data in Kg..,  6.60 M2 per Kg. . 

                Calendar Years               Year-to-Date              Year-Endings                                YE 10/2009
 Country        2007       2008      10/2008    10/2009  % Change   10/2008     8/2009     9/2009    10/2009   % Change % Share

                                                   (P)                                                  (P)

 WORLD         16206737  16555076   14268625   12764762    -10.54  16658428   15354985   15511142   15051213      -9.65  100.00

 TURKEY         2604659   3667586    3005997    3514421     16.91   3433151    3979086    4217988    4176010      21.64   27.75

 MEXICO         3802642   3261652    2940739    2268344    -22.86   3477645    2660879    2652258    2589257     -25.55   17.20

 CHINA P        2556860   2826947    2481490    2172036    -12.47   2888345    2665079    2546669    2517493     -12.84   16.73

 CANADA         2581666   2516418    2098874    2092083     -0.32   2494607    2781034    2801233    2509627       0.60   16.67

 THAILND        1071016   1137783     996041     820783    -17.60   1110403    1015049     983149     962525     -13.32    6.39

 INDIA           945279    642342     549707     463180    -15.74    640544     451969     519190     555815     -13.23    3.69

 GERMANY         329162    334935     284255     217192    -23.59    339045     259077     270579     267872     -20.99    1.78

 INDNSIA         178956    335200     284980     111051    -61.03    289423     133863     132480     161271     -44.28    1.07

 HONDURA         121999    118398      94254     133419     41.55    131359     149925     149109     157563      19.95    1.05

 ITALY           217417    162168     133487     101909    -23.66    176902     134213     134385     130590     -26.18    0.87

 FRANCE          140837    154031     138418     111322    -19.58    158903     125850     117532     126935     -20.12    0.84

 CHINA T         201858    217426     207683     100566    -51.58    226460     125299     125070     110309     -51.29    0.73

 EGYPT           280023    178091     149969      81435    -45.70    205408      95756     119829     109557     -46.66    0.73

 VIETNAM         306298    249143     229312      57359    -74.99    301110     112366     101317      77190     -74.36    0.51


 _ASEAN         1595408   1722976    1511063     991461    -34.39   1702126    1263689    1219357    1203374     -29.30    8.00

 _CBI            138542    123669      98486     191236     94.18    136481     189953     198772     216419      58.57    1.44

 _CAFTA          138542    123587      98404     191236     94.34    136399     189953     198772     216419      58.67    1.44