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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 225:  BLUE DENIM FABRIC
                     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         46515782  40782654   36136828   26139688    -27.66  43951618   31193085   31306528   30785514     -29.96  100.00

 CHINA P       12325195  13059474   11516511    9290920    -19.33  14232402   10481111   10686134   10833883     -23.88   35.19

 MEXICO         4165160   4873458    4061662    4442713      9.38   4942098    5415299    5421444    5254509       6.32   17.07

 CHINA T        5225265   4562303    3968222    4207443      6.03   4737437    4875571    4855794    4801524       1.35   15.60

 ITALY         13039392   7231621    6468999    3508782    -45.76   8316325    4097572    4327088    4271404     -48.64   13.87

 JAPAN          3857418   1998723    1622373    1883235     16.08   2123878    2280864    2221425    2259585       6.39    7.34

 TURKEY         4358825   5253021    4851873    1069910    -77.95   5407764    2098709    1928165    1471058     -72.80    4.78

 BAHRAIN         383172    754501     697898     405925    -41.84    853201     581444     521986     462528     -45.79    1.50

 SLOVENI          70168   1081883    1081883          *       *     1152051     105415          *          *        *       *