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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 239:  BABIES' GARM. / CLOTH. ACCESS.
                     Data in Kg..,  6.30 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        152351910 134933577  113015576  107264281     -5.09 138071800  129305709  129808564  129182282      -6.44  100.00

 CHINA P      100205185  81672121   68819622   61308086    -10.91  85065595   74715321   74568082   74160585     -12.82   57.41

 BNGLDSH        7426540   8569406    6733587    8453799     25.55   8260747   10569014   10328692   10289618      24.56    7.97

 THAILND        8976266   8432380    7160988    6164659    -13.91   8755401    7474234    7481280    7436051     -15.07    5.76

 INDIA          4858786   5086598    4105028    5213175     26.99   4914108    5703047    5993881    6194745      26.06    4.80

 VIETNAM        5552367   4849589    4114519    4226820      2.73   4907940    4947180    5004178    4961890       1.10    3.84

 INDNSIA        3212621   4063473    3254001    3877769     19.17   3782242    4617442    4747510    4687241      23.93    3.63

 CAMBOD         3234411   3880124    3345389    3144191     -6.01   3954731    3530878    3738177    3678926      -6.97    2.85

 SALVADR        2375243   2602487    2083547    2393122     14.86   2400375    2893749    2939462    2912062      21.32    2.25

 PHIL R         3146710   2572661    2124896    2040945     -3.95   2544667    2522734    2537426    2488710      -2.20    1.93

 HONDURA        1327491   1562962    1359775    1610167     18.41   1501025    1718717    1813949    1813354      20.81    1.40

 SRI LKA        1591345   1518034    1262517    1290572      2.22   1534131    1532166    1558665    1546089       0.78    1.20

 PAKISTN         963723   1431329    1220146    1235197      1.23   1393176    1478081    1419370    1446380       3.82    1.12

 GUATMAL        1190666   1460245    1251184     914622    -26.90   1450041    1034760    1094987    1123683     -22.51    0.87

 EGYPT          1216353    967744     819325     859894      4.95   1010227     952656     998728    1008313      -0.19    0.78

 KENYA           624419    606074     484108     773807     59.84    713359     773129     884167     895773      25.57    0.69


 _ASEAN        25281960  24924342   20981697   20245650     -3.51  25087142   24101858   24479692   24188295      -3.58   18.72

 _CBI           5585532   6330314    5360991    5302347     -1.09   6197103    6018483    6260876    6271670       1.20    4.85

 _CAFTA         5563071   6323727    5356370    5284043     -1.35   6185472    5998115    6242588    6251400       1.07    4.84

 _SUB-SAHARA    1325592   1031865     838012    1207511     44.09   1140362    1293367    1396320    1401364      22.89    1.08

 _ANDEAN         881032    756753     665658     515558    -22.55    827737     611923     599906     606653     -26.71    0.47