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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