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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