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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 229:  SPECIAL PURPOSE FABRIC
                     Data in Kg.., 13.60 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        126481444 117889864   99150313  102426119      3.30 120629640  121524078  121990098  121165670       0.44  100.00

 KOR REP       21870447  18932966   15488233   19832716     28.05  19412368   22431017   22939042   23277449      19.91   19.21

 VIETNAM        3219816   5454209    3849404   18198633    372.76   4569898   17329239   18832878   19803438     333.35   16.34

 CHINA P       10725078  14779834   12198401   14515289     18.99  14314600   17390997   17355541   17096722      19.44   14.11

 ISRAEL         9807220  14294217   11568796    9943811    -14.05  13244167   13609125   13285619   12669232      -4.34   10.46

 CANADA        27216188  17190309   14864527    9708038    -34.69  18522299   13800200   13337830   12033820     -35.03    9.93

 CHINA T       13284302  12047493   10656860    8250720    -22.58  12592011    9940394    9660244    9641353     -23.43    7.96

 MEXICO         9871065   8913421    7935722    5952695    -24.99   9542323    6604470    6601790    6930394     -27.37    5.72

 INDIA          4351183   3443929    2920534    3301644     13.05   3902304    3743429    3669308    3825039      -1.98    3.16

 JAPAN          3471085   4593031    3997358    2335571    -41.57   4776255    3048361    2998094    2931244     -38.63    2.42

 PORTUGL        1467160   2553579    1851520    2085957     12.66   2168149    2973440    2952477    2788016      28.59    2.30

 GERMANY        2609081   1873953    1676719    1190516    -29.00   2031115    1386869    1347394    1387750     -31.68    1.15

 POLAND          945950   1096604     874710     743111    -15.04   1123658     931018     946308     965005     -14.12    0.80

 ITALY          2162977   2046730    1800870     707344    -60.72   2076748     973844     979637     953204     -54.10    0.79

 SPAIN          1093631    930868     727719     668416     -8.15    885656     830355     876179     871565      -1.59    0.72

 INDNSIA        1278588    889677     755763     595138    -21.25    968639     754859     712617     729052     -24.73    0.60


 _ASEAN         7345667   7476356    5594105   19779716    253.58   6945010   19338696   20707035   21661967     211.91   17.88

 _SUB-SAHARA     525037   1343417    1252598     305234    -75.63   1538044     550885     478349     396053     -74.25    0.33

 _ANDEAN         209845    124824     113656     246421    116.81    136133     236932     249597     257589      89.22    0.21

 _CBI            211920    203609     158911      75741    -52.34    191191     133949     124456     120439     -37.01    0.10

 _CAFTA          188066    170902     145922      64977    -55.47    173674     103441      94122      89957     -48.20    0.07