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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