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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 220:  FABRIC OF SPECIAL WEAVE
                     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        183611209 130257064  107367214  112000841      4.32 129502877  131649527  135253609  134890691       4.16  100.00

 CHINA P       69118261  72879306   57535392   77023751     33.87  67669533   86178609   90714554   92367665      36.50   68.48

 PAKISTN       51827570  18905055   17165983   13910653    -18.96  20983635   16717610   16757134   15649725     -25.42   11.60

 INDIA          3229217   3950066    2384499    2363654     -0.87   2780164    3993549    3825363    3929221      41.33    2.91

 CHINA T        9325367   5007882    4415637    2351740    -46.74   5416025    3241423    3103947    2943985     -45.64    2.18

 KOR REP        2901302   2748301    2389579    2448656      2.47   2726138    2800381    2734466    2807378       2.98    2.08

 MEXICO         4026302   3860864    3241935    1842250    -43.17   3838040    2503878    2547709    2461179     -35.87    1.82

 ITALY          9571374   4312026    3807351    1652433    -56.60   5719326    2494690    2386383    2157108     -62.28    1.60

 SPAIN          1628995   1821287    1733826    1639290     -5.45   1914821    1879042    1732654    1726751      -9.82    1.28

 ARAB EM        2356258   1755313    1694870    1048227    -38.15   2195389    1212247    1030582    1108670     -49.50    0.82

 CANADA         3421959   2026972    1864930     899560    -51.76   2246934    1242932    1175956    1061602     -52.75    0.79

 TURKEY         4098073   2107415    1794427     722031    -59.76   2293039    1094444    1096701    1035019     -54.86    0.77

 FRANCE         1986850   1182985     941170     539012    -42.73   1225794     828981     835159     780827     -36.30    0.58

 JAPAN           826161    939808     742069     536646    -27.68    903303     829339     796201     734385     -18.70    0.54

 GERMANY        1002872    829407     692802     541953    -21.77    893976     719784     697883     678558     -24.10    0.50

 ISRAEL         2325610    925848     783881     416480    -46.87   1095156     533788     509928     558447     -49.01    0.41


 _ASEAN         7736241   2245957    2017594    1186600    -41.19   2267254    1414154    1354014    1414963     -37.59    1.05