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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 224:  PILE / TUFTED FABRICS
                     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        213135804 201560521  175969076  142042734    -19.28 216146236  170429855  166771082  167634179     -22.44  100.00

 CHINA P      100430219 111553315   96795471   73923406    -23.63 115618148   93538945   89978053   88681250     -23.30   52.90

 MALTA         25706330  35809264   31442889   32715941      4.05  41579033   36092803   37057575   37082316     -10.81   22.12

 CHINA T       33975002  22363438   20687972   12026210    -41.87  25351291   13551573   13168611   13701676     -45.95    8.17

 KOR REP       10831760   8455770    7405953    6514803    -12.03   8798384    7673920    7487082    7564620     -14.02    4.51

 FRANCE         7175411   2587512    2355286    6281615    166.70   3250902    3608714    3382008    6513841     100.37    3.89

 TURKEY         1170101   5604126    4482610    2132015    -52.44   4732054    4220639    4234940    3253531     -31.24    1.94

 MEXICO         3555450   3264739    2796923    2214748    -20.81   3287689    2694558    2702117    2682564     -18.41    1.60

 INDIA          4297520   3709320    3200782    1903970    -40.52   4092855    2622005    2489279    2412508     -41.06    1.44

 PAKISTN       13856769   1166002     835603    1050383     25.70   2239996    1374061    1375463    1380782     -38.36    0.82

 CANADA         2769485   1967693    1625129     793384    -51.18   2013588    1319831    1306262    1135948     -43.59    0.68

 ITALY          4188262   1263136    1113134     543334    -51.19   1381565     774813     749592     693336     -49.82    0.41

 BELGIUM         944146    760678     666792     345465    -48.19    861613     498051     462057     439351     -49.01    0.26