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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 301:  COMBED 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         43977236  38786924   35314391   19535283    -44.68  41583552   26295724   24391840   23007816     -44.67  100.00

 KOR REP        4556221   8183524    7660058    5923039    -22.68   8496653    6725246    6399583    6446505     -24.13   28.02

 THAILND        6101897   6231882    5294975    3254030    -38.54   6240249    5052463    4682370    4190937     -32.84   18.22

 PAKISTN       10510803   5013403    4340918    2357509    -45.69   5467566    3953715    3527287    3029994     -44.58   13.17

 INDIA          8021118   7100264    6593616    2485807    -62.30   7406097    3621268    3219100    2992455     -59.59   13.01

 MEXICO         6323168   4821181    4587311    2357625    -48.61   6029657    2544705    2511766    2591495     -57.02   11.26

 INDNSIA        4015227   3751635    3395034    1586638    -53.27   3830382    2433544    2196631    1943239     -49.27    8.45

 VIETNAM         880810    922695     867174     495334    -42.88    961241     604651     582606     550855     -42.69    2.39

 EGYPT           690084    808480     691997     426454    -38.37    836271     570417     566558     542937     -35.08    2.36

 CHINA P         144934    772380     767750     181316    -76.38    784288     177763     151229     185946     -76.29    0.81

 TURKEY          405725    102691      83964     147980     76.24    136114     148610     166707     166707      22.48    0.72

 CANADA          575534    132188     127133     108652    -14.54    164772     113359     124360     113707     -30.99    0.49

 ITALY           137389     91508      90584      35792    -60.49    111937      48609      47761      36716     -67.20    0.16

 SWITZLD         160217    233616     229224      17656    -92.30    254162      30868      30858      22048     -91.33    0.10

 MALAYSA         598870    179426     179426          *       *      379826      90000          *          *        *       *  

 PHIL R          379132    214110     214110          *       *      270442       5120          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN        11996027  11340311    9991282    5336002    -46.59  11742794    8185778    7461607    6685031     -43.07   29.06