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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 300:  CARDED COTTON YARN
                     Data in Kg..,  8.50 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         26188845  16904510   14363517   10706880    -25.46  16968376   14192459   14063653   13247873     -21.93  100.00

 PAKISTN       11841061   8227944    6967250    4518785    -35.14   8502575    6558049    6260291    5779479     -32.03   43.63

 MEXICO         1507725   2446007    2169593    3055986     40.86   2387742    2861105    3171533    3332400      39.56   25.15

 INDIA          1907492   1728585    1573361    1056444    -32.85   1703745    1239999    1182602    1211668     -28.88    9.15

 INDNSIA         395754    468084     403624     414701      2.74    459805     531831     530319     479161       4.21    3.62

 CHINA P        2037325    934971     841014     343580    -59.15    871816     562628     471414     437537     -49.81    3.30

 KOR REP         293409    112678     108382     415073    282.97    169180     205457     330239     419369     147.88    3.17

 CANADA         5264324    838880     512204      25206    -95.08    830237     774032     748349     351882     -57.62    2.66

 SPAIN           964823    526838     413803     230984    -44.18    572477     352357     349258     344019     -39.91    2.60

 HONDURA          18511     31553      17373     280954   1517.19     35884     279951     295134     295134     722.47    2.23

 THAILND         314243    844903     719756     103169    -85.67    746791     327400     288351     228316     -69.43    1.72

 EGYPT           526350    292356     245610      93271    -62.02    250381     196980     170222     140017     -44.08    1.06


 _ASEAN          823654   1337557    1147950     554679    -51.68   1231166     914184     873623     744286     -39.55    5.62

 _CBI             32121     64983      50803     280954    453.03     69564     302660     311031     295134     324.26    2.23

 _CAFTA           32121     64983      50803     280954    453.03     69564     302660     311031     295134     324.26    2.23