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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 201: SPECIALTY YARNS
Data in Kg.., 6.50 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 27745564 28892317 23778687 21951966 -7.68 27637665 28896312 28067292 27065596 -2.07 100.00
MEXICO 4355964 6633609 5241681 4674041 -10.83 5927766 6759933 6469557 6065969 2.33 22.41
PORTUGL 2169181 2226859 1599784 3244395 102.80 1799066 3944223 3931848 3871470 115.19 14.30
INDIA 1682691 2111167 1643410 1560210 -5.06 1868849 1927954 2031571 2027967 8.51 7.49
C RICA 1436271 1300428 1117613 1836185 64.30 1273994 2125550 2094554 2019000 58.48 7.46
VIETNAM 1696677 1847412 1577582 1545181 -2.05 1918891 1948437 1911007 1815011 -5.41 6.71
CHINA P 2186189 2058523 1765020 1385927 -21.48 2072031 1768585 1641037 1679430 -18.95 6.21
CANADA 3580352 2599950 2215086 1214133 -45.19 2667317 1859998 1737515 1598997 -40.05 5.91
N ZEAL 521038 519820 519820 968691 86.35 519820 1019942 948942 968691 86.35 3.58
TURKEY 1180512 1259987 1023940 622826 -39.17 1146238 945584 876848 858873 -25.07 3.17
KOR REP 1030040 1092683 954502 679485 -28.81 1093833 915911 867217 817666 -25.25 3.02
AUSTRAL 72876 138770 310 509794 164349.7 310 648252 648252 648254 209014.2 2.40
GUATMAL 543648 635382 509952 482922 -5.30 568699 580297 630084 608352 6.97 2.25
FRANCE 551513 662521 511640 385201 -24.71 626672 498429 526526 536082 -14.46 1.98
THAILND 738302 716432 609941 400736 -34.30 722081 605426 565538 507227 -29.75 1.87
CHINA T 1383695 1311298 1167494 345788 -70.38 1418362 541058 517567 489592 -65.48 1.81
_CBI 1980974 1962433 1654188 2424665 46.58 1869473 2788374 2818165 2732910 46.19 10.10
_CAFTA 1980974 1962433 1654188 2424665 46.58 1869473 2788374 2818165 2732910 46.19 10.10
_ASEAN 2814548 2790542 2400816 2311526 -3.72 2900206 2884855 2803768 2701252 -6.86 9.98
_ANDEAN 1594882 1352148 1216281 307330 -74.73 1497078 611652 534649 443197 -70.40 1.64