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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 223:  NON-WOVEN FABRICS
                     Data in Kg.., 14.00 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        198585651 179491731  153259183  141286782     -7.81 183587760  167957728  168224824  167519330      -8.75  100.00

 CHINA P       30843851  31283659   27216961   26182121     -3.80  32012094   30612625   30694597   30248819      -5.51   18.06

 ISRAEL        16483128  16299944   13492823   16589912     22.95  16509313   17484791   18629990   19397033      17.49   11.58

 MEXICO        20430563  18539139   16326281   14362337    -12.03  19507735   15749270   16087186   16575195     -15.03    9.89

 CANADA        18764693  19527611   16839467   12830881    -23.80  19904388   17789162   17272135   15519025     -22.03    9.26

 BRAZIL        11355568  11667974    9601475   12411947     29.27  11199691   14108331   14308655   14478446      29.28    8.64

 GERMANY       12689514  11478777   10058525    8624522    -14.26  12603499    9917987    9795784   10044774     -20.30    6.00

 JAPAN         10575197   9857380    8521720    7611609    -10.68  10123222    9188565    8994486    8947269     -11.62    5.34

 LUXMBRG        4843357   4917118    4490724    4502588      0.26   5571260    5237643    4969106    4928982     -11.53    2.94

 S ARAB         7920239   4679202    3537985    3584303      1.31   4530218    5038771    4865473    4725520       4.31    2.82

 FRANCE         6137690   5008115    4056358    3763022     -7.23   4942253    4708198    4697795    4714779      -4.60    2.81

 FINLAND        6916752   4340829    3894864    3354129    -13.88   4702838    3672473    3837128    3800094     -19.20    2.27

 ITALY          5831060   3619631    3022524    3148711      4.17   3643373    3550571    3618934    3745818       2.81    2.24

 CHINA T        6974992   7662368    6624097    2687279    -59.43   7440493    4507370    4007576    3725550     -49.93    2.22

 TURKEY         4732086   3811765    3133619    2756850    -12.02   3681523    3512769    3373905    3434996      -6.70    2.05

 AUSTRAL         929998   3102438    2754034    2568325     -6.74   3058801    2685307    2824273    2916729      -4.64    1.74


 _ASEAN         4052730   3398870    2865455    2944605      2.76   3447357    3162208    3523051    3478020       0.89    2.08

 _CBI            337837    589533     490098     311876    -36.36    588619     439264     449214     411311     -30.12    0.25

 _CAFTA          337837    589527     490092     311876    -36.36    588613     439264     449214     411311     -30.12    0.25

 _SUB-SAHARA      12596     31154      16644      73137    339.42     18249      69218      77203      87647     380.28    0.05