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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 226:  CHEESECLOTH, BATISTES, LAWNS/VOILE
                     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         47134787  43914368   37459019   26896421    -28.20  44133590   34403497   33814032   33351770     -24.43  100.00

 CHINA P       13846715  12378056   10384033   10722858      3.26  11897966   11261622   12113821   12716881       6.88   38.13

 CANADA        11954355  10100109    9119277    4958379    -45.63  11769130    7135822    6821060    5939211     -49.54   17.81

 INDIA          8297640   6815461    6003107    3653495    -39.14   6086698    3976460    4223241    4465849     -26.63   13.39

 PAKISTN        3971220   4929300    4145423    2408860    -41.89   4863977    4120412    3501221    3192737     -34.36    9.57

 KOR REP        2165531   2534641    1839668    1765238     -4.05   2406645    2408587    2407235    2460211       2.23    7.38

 MEXICO          967252   3546583    3269593     621111    -81.00   3633650    1574481     988356     898101     -75.28    2.69

 MAURIT             398         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN         1989985    799170     622572    1185555     90.43    720453    1382007    1362003    1362153      89.07    4.08