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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 315:  COTTON PRINTCLOTH 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        125142600  82313845   70581135   50154796    -28.94  87010368   63944322   62770819   61887506     -28.87  100.00

 CHINA P       59268545  39771987   33488364   23265877    -30.53  41982145   30936147   30068623   29549500     -29.61   47.75

 THAILND       22113261  16141250   14056464    8775350    -37.57  16347123   11377346   11055300   10860136     -33.57   17.55

 PAKISTN       18883979  14351355   12388600    8815897    -28.84  15116555   11036671   10628664   10778652     -28.70   17.42

 KOR REP        6919473   3621070    3108701    3394006      9.18   4140723    3519620    3725670    3906375      -5.66    6.31

 INDIA          4890237   4188491    3806257    3329967    -12.51   4803631    3782592    4050884    3712201     -22.72    6.00

 JAPAN          4032070   3192624    2884390    1280486    -55.61   3414533    1786540    1742558    1588720     -53.47    2.57


 _ASEAN        23242680  16308751   14204209    8949687    -36.99  16501887   11551993   11229947   11054229     -33.01   17.86