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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