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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 313:  COTTON SHEETING FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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        278868378 273724841  235711393  162382872    -31.11 279238826  216405267  209322480  200396320     -28.23  100.00

 CHINA P      109335393 124192922  109792860   59850327    -45.49 126247663   83211825   78573777   74250389     -41.19   37.05

 KOR REP       58349968  54732289   46278853   39539060    -14.56  55527749   48996332   48861179   47992496     -13.57   23.95

 PAKISTN       60778170  50654085   41504579   34100278    -17.84  51116224   47237548   45666253   43249784     -15.39   21.58

 JAPAN         16494707  15273913   13033630   10277824    -21.14  16120005   12584379   12453032   12518107     -22.34    6.25

 THAILND       11023598   9434971    8452278    6684664    -20.91  10620758    8113552    8112707    7667357     -27.81    3.83

 INDNSIA        5581432   4953254    4404704    3952219    -10.27   4999437    4713891    4656714    4500769      -9.97    2.25

 INDIA          7002521   4613268    3888283    2702875    -30.49   5005875    3871256    3390933    3427860     -31.52    1.71

 CHINA T         125134    303267     290084    1729464    496.19    306558    1429750    1573357    1742647     468.46    0.87

 GERMANY        1327863   1727414    1555932     965213    -37.97   1820836    1238389    1205709    1136695     -37.57    0.57

 TURKEY         1230690   1437792    1271874     801807    -36.96   1414210     974067     965033     967725     -31.57    0.48

 FRANCE          199117   1669852     994228      56137    -94.35   1027144    1523284    1402306     731761     -28.76    0.37

 EGYPT          1292234   1099710    1099710          *       *     1350915          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN        17107425  14746752   13199699   10683572    -19.06  15982031   13010310   12805246   12230625     -23.47    6.10