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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 222: KNIT FABRIC
Data in Kg.., 12.30 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 99945643 82116269 72536647 81678674 12.60 85076572 90325007 90918882 91258296 7.27 100.00
CHINA P 10989445 11161210 9477732 34900511 268.24 11152030 32355658 34559708 36583989 228.05 40.09
KOR REP 39611465 33320009 29763468 25668200 -13.76 35290275 29313213 29307904 29224741 -17.19 32.02
INDIA 8260500 13297948 11853195 7825847 -33.98 13136400 11051426 10174469 9270600 -29.43 10.16
CHINA T 8966994 8366747 7344542 4624844 -37.03 8596412 5929631 5878959 5647049 -34.31 6.19
MEXICO 6010822 4117862 3690240 1821505 -50.64 4399842 2669606 2403185 2249127 -48.88 2.46
CANADA 14657003 2272273 1968919 1279636 -35.01 2435746 1795362 1749056 1582990 -35.01 1.73
JAPAN 1386794 1923920 1610411 863381 -46.39 1878562 1357148 1297193 1176890 -37.35 1.29
INDNSIA 637232 911380 806964 939033 16.37 871683 1159402 1056248 1043449 19.71 1.14
ITALY 1514774 1294257 1081423 719245 -33.49 1292309 1020674 970070 932079 -27.87 1.02
TURKEY 573435 761502 658859 807808 22.61 738603 864745 889904 910451 23.27 1.00
VIETNAM 1251597 1866939 1785819 556535 -68.84 2040280 774026 648406 637655 -68.75 0.70
GERMANY 591866 361026 295262 239450 -18.90 335236 333133 303238 305214 -8.96 0.33
BRAZIL 397652 452360 428971 190278 -55.64 492228 266225 240446 213667 -56.59 0.23
EGYPT 250972 150162 120941 171249 41.60 158561 210608 203838 200470 26.43 0.22
THAILND 251849 143682 116008 159877 37.82 136461 117252 141845 187551 37.44 0.21
_ASEAN 2334105 3105285 2876348 1692146 -41.17 3262457 2110986 1897101 1921083 -41.12 2.11
_CBI 664098 176050 161784 92482 -42.84 222032 101359 109457 106748 -51.92 0.12
_CAFTA 663927 176020 161754 92482 -42.83 222002 101359 109457 106748 -51.92 0.12
_ANDEAN 20946 35213 30967 73971 138.87 34368 67803 79010 78217 127.59 0.09
_SUB-SAHARA 128045 112837 98840 47758 -51.68 130914 66440 76531 61755 -52.83 0.07