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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 218:  FABRICS OF YARNS OF DIFF. COLORS
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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         80156447  67720056   59059611   40340360    -31.70  71101616   50074110   48266847   49000805     -31.08  100.00

 CHINA P       38988732  33273031   29122549   19135960    -34.29  34994481   23399340   22958616   23286442     -33.46   47.52

 ITALY          6336828   9423384    8403930    5219685    -37.89   9938389    6985249    6514317    6239139     -37.22   12.73

 INDIA          7600514   6185117    5208210    4443723    -14.68   6240440    5541993    5503946    5420630     -13.14   11.06

 CHINA T        6353602   4386211    3900774    2876203    -26.27   4801543    2973000    2644590    3361640     -29.99    6.86

 TURKEY         3984709   3793475    3143210    2427453    -22.77   3705189    3325826    3096591    3077718     -16.93    6.28

 MEXICO         6413075   1852558    1564079    1515999     -3.07   2034678    1595416    1668347    1804478     -11.31    3.68

 JAPAN          2866229   2276068    2020917     953699    -52.81   2422546    1404939    1228151    1208850     -50.10    2.47

 PAKISTN         711832   1214224    1095368     493877    -54.91   1151049     619188     575748     612733     -46.77    1.25

 MAURIT             330         0          0     597586       *           0     508813     597586     597586        *      1.22

 PORTUGL         929881    978916     850150     352677    -58.52   1010064     428550     442892     481443     -52.34    0.98

 THAILND        1165182    783645     705209     369614    -47.59    847936     551689     498346     448050     -47.16    0.91


 _ASEAN         1365957    972203     890192     467378    -47.50   1071101     787953     577537     549389     -48.71    1.12