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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