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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 219:  DUCK FABRIC
                     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         71667978  59422953   49681474   37767378    -23.98  62015490   49606380   50018882   47508857     -23.39  100.00

 INDIA         22089224  23833673   19861323   12733761    -35.89  23756907   18153260   17782672   16706111     -29.68   35.16

 PAKISTN       12543714  11261357    9418241    8280886    -12.08  12139140   10625960   11112027   10124002     -16.60   21.31

 TURKMEN        2579723   4740126    3673818    3280261    -10.71   4089455    4488412    4588663    4346569       6.29    9.15

 ARAB EM        3796722   3709037    3192339    2319076    -27.35   4694132    3312293    3195512    2835774     -39.59    5.97

 BAHRAIN        2009730   3932406    3758446    2419976    -35.61   4606634    2346447    2334218    2593936     -43.69    5.46

 THAILND         257307   1327921     786913    1694143    115.29    787002    2262305    2303236    2235151     184.01    4.70

 CHINA T        1956945   2979901    2342939    1558268    -33.49   2587132    2280881    2264669    2195230     -15.15    4.62

 INDNSIA       12267839   2214410    1831956    1693340     -7.57   3218652    1988770    2042178    2075794     -35.51    4.37

 CHINA P         805958   1281798    1145173    1615363     41.06   1251748    1583092    1769336    1751988      39.96    3.69

 CANADA         2717690   1253675    1099843     627846    -42.91   1409056     904249     860625     781678     -44.52    1.65

 MEXICO          516551    858119     727389     576175    -20.79    807208     579301     692910     706905     -12.43    1.49

 TURKEY         6750407    695507     648352     361707    -44.21    763733     374745     319321     408862     -46.47    0.86

 TOKELAU        1898026    495890     495890          *       *      947344          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN        12526298   3544955    2621493    3387944     29.24   4008278    4251536    4345875    4311406       7.56    9.07