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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 331:  COTTON GLOVES AND MITTENS
                     Data in Dpr.,  2.90 M2 per Dpr . 

                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         49100530  43856607   37864208   22741549    -39.94  46132207   31732224   30524781   28733948     -37.71  100.00

 CHINA P       30761759  27563811   23540399   14279278    -39.34  28721745   20057733   19148338   18302690     -36.28   63.70

 PAKISTN        3932442   4165917    3649815    1768297    -51.55   4432545    2693630    2671806    2284399     -48.46    7.95

 INDNSIA        3364789   3008755    2687077    1385345    -48.44   3300444    1931434    1925453    1707023     -48.28    5.94

 PHIL R         2797430   2368974    2085474    1106179    -46.96   2455313    1541422    1479436    1389679     -43.40    4.84

 MEXICO         2983517   2286595    1984076    1022873    -48.45   2436586    1574730    1388825    1325392     -45.60    4.61

 KOR REP        1312231    982125     810494    1072175     32.29   1017522    1206567    1250123    1243806      22.24    4.33

 SRI LKA         840097    983604     863039     515127    -40.31   1014812     737193     639453     635692     -37.36    2.21

 THAILND         923729    568433     544233     464950    -14.57    744133     443019     494274     489150     -34.27    1.70

 BNGLDSH         647878    596695     554100     292475    -47.22    692100     400895     427045     335070     -51.59    1.17

 INDIA           452060    204436     194042     263228     35.66    277422     253719     255895     273622      -1.37    0.95

 CHINA T         171983    202332     184356     158642    -13.95    207426     204573     199045     176618     -14.85    0.61

 MAURIT            1250      2262       1637       1114    -31.95      2337       1914       1814       1739     -25.59    0.01


 _ASEAN         7178280   6138396    5489926    3007575    -45.22   6687768    4008388    3983479    3656045     -45.33   12.72

 _CBI            542010    454523     346124     209811    -39.38    389280     363584     358434     318210     -18.26    1.11

 _CAFTA          452515    338817     265617     160770    -39.47    298207     245453     244373     233970     -21.54    0.81