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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 326:  COTTON SATEEN 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         48030253  47259899   38687360   31045568    -19.75  47006654   40985354   40625194   39618107     -15.72  100.00

 CHINA P       15395416  11274478    9794504   13176844     34.53  13087072   13906086   15191177   14656818      11.99   37.00

 PAKISTN       19364425  17364308   13017745    8406664    -35.42  15731714   14532452   13287418   12753227     -18.93   32.19

 ARAB EM        1064876   5794358    5129863    4296102    -16.25   5366794    4295028    4550184    4960597      -7.57   12.52

 BAHRAIN        1821140   5464323    4455516    1444975    -67.57   5008555    3393551    2686761    2453782     -51.01    6.19

 CHINA T         538115    718570     578052    1198224    107.29    617120    1194086    1253659    1338742     116.93    3.38

 THAILND         750043    991275     651133     535039    -17.83    858267     954690     954690     875181       1.97    2.21

 ITALY          2253797   1376377    1267664     568720    -55.14   1778472     706967     694337     677433     -61.91    1.71

 KOR REP         948580   1146084    1059987     583893    -44.92   1195836     678210     671110     669990     -43.97    1.69

 INDIA          1550732   1755587    1591818     399149    -74.92   1866762     617739     671774     562918     -69.85    1.42


 _ASEAN         2396036   1072443     660366     535200    -18.95    959890    1026975    1026975     947277      -1.31    2.39