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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 333:  M/B SUIT-TYPE COATS, COTTON
                     Data in Doz., 30.30 M2 per Doz . 

                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           584753    491760     423445     295426    -30.23    514939     414231     384019     363741     -29.36  100.00

 CHINA P         402252    316151     275095     182097    -33.81    342180     256355     230883     223153     -34.78   61.35

 VIETNAM          12946     29382      27137      30217     11.35     28623      33028      33620      32462      13.41    8.92

 INDNSIA          26205     23921      22276      17407    -21.86     25823      23990      22436      19052     -26.22    5.24

 INDIA            20314     19969      13974      12314    -11.88     15348      21134      20162      18309      19.29    5.03

 THAILND          20943     23314      19324       4738    -75.48     23526      13698      12023       8728     -62.90    2.40

 EGYPT             2886      5800       4286       5714     33.32      5333       6031       6076       7228      35.53    1.99

 ITALY             9628      9387       8100       5668    -30.03      9682       7336       7222       6955     -28.17    1.91

 MEXICO            9088      7366       6560       5542    -15.52      7262       6445       6500       6348     -12.59    1.75

 BNGLDSH           4421      4483       3177       4812     51.46      4213       6411       7266       6118      45.22    1.68

 TURKEY           15333      9453       8321       4273    -48.65     10976       5988       5559       5405     -50.76    1.49

 PAKISTN          23285      9033       7395       2979    -59.72      8926       6946       5867       4617     -48.27    1.27

 SRI LKA           1529      3995       1304       1267     -2.84      1336       3981       3964       3958     196.26    1.09

 SALVADR           3431      4752       4119       2578    -37.41      4535       2540       2740       3211     -29.20    0.88

 PHIL R            5413      2303       2302       1600    -30.50      3283       1744       1634       1601     -51.23    0.44

 PERU               521       277        247       1416    473.28       283        676       1466       1446     410.95    0.40


 _ASEAN           66506     78982      71098      53995    -24.06     81430      72493      69746      61879     -24.01   17.01

 _CBI              4577      5129       4164       2660    -36.12      4819       2969       3169       3625     -24.78    1.00

 _CAFTA            4574      5128       4163       2632    -36.78      4818       2941       3141       3597     -25.34    0.99

 _ANDEAN           1917      1439       1354       2130     57.31      1395       1466       2263       2215      58.78    0.61