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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 237:  PLAYSUITS, SUNSUITS, ETC
                     Data in Doz., 19.20 M2 per Doz . 

                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          2815665   1547410    1323700    1136082    -14.17   1729793    1383332    1370983    1359792     -21.39  100.00

 CHINA P        1265587    346418     303623     390083     28.48    461419     391781     415454     432878      -6.19   31.83

 BNGLDSH         159150    133482      81723      72526    -11.25     93035     119514     117259     124285      33.59    9.14

 MEXICO          144529    120899      92429      95168      2.96    122498     132058     129078     123638       0.93    9.09

 INDIA            94181    102539      81828     102130     24.81     91416     131494     125900     122841      34.38    9.03

 GUATMAL         156727    200192     172189      70876    -58.84    202398     133700     117030      98879     -51.15    7.27

 INDNSIA         253137    122140     115270      84358    -26.82    163437     100346      90531      91228     -44.18    6.71

 VIETNAM         127271     53232      43751      57124     30.57     75094      65457      65138      66605     -11.30    4.90

 PAKISTN          29906     41876      37146      40631      9.38     39621      44857      49577      45361      14.49    3.34

 CAMBOD           31474     53746      52782      34690    -34.28     53607      39528      36259      35654     -33.49    2.62

 PHIL R           47459     82836      75719      27247    -64.02     79700      34256      34298      34364     -56.88    2.53

 SALVADR          52274     36899      33835      22167    -34.49     36776      30961      29300      25231     -31.39    1.86

 EGYPT            18285     17847      16124      16864      4.59     16399      16124      15474      18587      13.34    1.37

 KENYA             4384      5159       1219      12373    915.01      1219      14425      15123      16313    1238.23    1.20

 SRI LKA          40255     40520      36763      10058    -72.64     37471      13674      13615      13815     -63.13    1.02

 THAILND          86523     55830      55043      12317    -77.62     64354      17011      13598      13104     -79.64    0.96


 _ASEAN          577541    386580     360845     223241    -38.13    470556     261776     248400     248976     -47.09   18.31

 _CBI            279910    288253     250318     111171    -55.59    288326     200049     179890     149106     -48.29   10.97

 _CAFTA          279507    269051     231211     108156    -53.22    269219     194564     174309     145996     -45.77   10.74

 _SUB-SAHARA      46115     10969       6817      29782    336.88     13057      24862      28329      33934     159.89    2.50

 _ANDEAN          33135     17165      16090      11066    -31.22     22508      11707      11376      12141     -46.06    0.89