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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 227:  OXFORD CLOTH
                     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         16288517   6060311    5919559     786298    -86.72  13051863    1419263    1119259     927050     -92.90  100.00

 INDNSIA        1897315   2062454    1976452     192363    -90.27   2314424     784024     504242     278365     -87.97   30.03

 BRAZIL        13279548   3099153    3099153        303    -99.99   9495231        303        303        303    -100.00    0.03


 _ASEAN         2042527   2085119    1999117     196211    -90.19   2337089     787872     508090     282213     -87.92   30.44