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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 314:  COTTON POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FAB.
                     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        168633396 135018940  119865435   83189468    -30.60 147992052  104464333  101192726   98342973     -33.55  100.00

 CHINA P       89354367  84233468   74021882   51386214    -30.58  90936525   67295497   63565122   61597800     -32.26   62.64

 PAKISTN       27685692  19437416   17831630   13939586    -21.83  23811059   14842617   16013625   15545372     -34.71   15.81

 INDNSIA        8786754   8475493    7398725    5370335    -27.42   8661455    6460628    6532446    6447103     -25.57    6.56

 CHINA T        1001209   1156917     850901    2641359    210.42    873245    2915109    2899082    2947375     237.52    3.00

 JAPAN          4339681   2672450    2360531    2170874     -8.03   2968393    2632120    2585793    2482793     -16.36    2.52

 KOR REP        4324654   2256826    2026245    1541762    -23.91   2497454    1583197    1588137    1772343     -29.03    1.80

 THAILND       10372160   8487432    8138399     890921    -89.05   9452152    2575279    1512204    1239954     -86.88    1.26

 MEXICO         1282585    478204     215824     908129    320.77    247862     945114    1064973    1170509     372.24    1.19

 INDIA          1199024   2238453    1855297     668647    -63.96   2123270    1195211    1126362    1051803     -50.46    1.07

 ARAB EM          95281   1763563    1722225     860816    -50.02   1722225    1221266    1140613     902154     -47.62    0.92

 BAHRAIN         291236   1704020    1704020     870248    -48.93   1995256     923291     912106     870248     -56.38    0.88

 GERMANY        1155942    332520     231200     356780     54.32    635225     329891     360754     458100     -27.88    0.47

 ITALY           978741    658358     552987     208416    -62.31    809083     348898     350531     313787     -61.22    0.32

 MAURIT             274         0          0          *       *         274          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN        20495072  17194677   15743901    6490851    -58.77  18513176    9253288    8275037    7941627     -57.10    8.08