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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 317:  COTTON TWILL 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         72865313  88625456   77402107   38393873    -50.40  91292906   56500380   51139072   49617222     -45.65  100.00

 CHINA P       28965341  46428796   40883167   15803308    -61.35  46624855   25387845   22579191   21348937     -54.21   43.03

 PAKISTN       15788500  19833596   16883380   10259681    -39.23  19520635   14934928   13018278   13209897     -32.33   26.62

 CHINA T       10394024   7610716    7087790    4637945    -34.56   9490634    5433826    5240707    5160871     -45.62   10.40

 INDIA          2096005   2668179    2398629    1388322    -42.12   2714637    1621088    1675942    1657872     -38.93    3.34

 BAHRAIN        1504506   1943578    1568095     838859    -46.50   2060114    1696535    1366399    1214342     -41.05    2.45

 GERMANY        1963291   1815830    1531539     706920    -53.84   1766398    1054681    1019336     991211     -43.89    2.00

 THAILND         784761   1178536     974803     735659    -24.53   1288098    1060551    1102847     939392     -27.07    1.89

 CANADA         1126485   1055942     960418     825291    -14.07   1070071     892521     988024     920815     -13.95    1.86

 ITALY          2362882   1914813    1719675     639188    -62.83   2321298     848630     825844     834326     -64.06    1.68

 MAURIT               0       493        493          *       *         493          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN         2176542   1379367    1139396     800533    -29.74   1578858    1171407    1199469    1040504     -34.10    2.10