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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 334:  OTHER M/B COATS, COTTON
                     Data in Doz., 34.50 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         10421926  10646930    9180770    7756276    -15.52  10734109    9876955    9586489    9222436     -14.08  100.00

 CHINA P        5950438   6198754    5463136    3970741    -27.32   6311610    5383511    5031928    4706359     -25.43   51.03

 PAKISTN        1240500   1325044    1120127    1269443     13.33   1311106    1421704    1444149    1474360      12.45   15.99

 BNGLDSH         692354    699719     570764     666096     16.70    660072     819249     851916     795051      20.45    8.62

 INDNSIA         312203    317656     274822     361708     31.62    319263     359420     358550     404542      26.71    4.39

 VIETNAM         396240    434085     347508     291162    -16.21    454043     405836     392371     377739     -16.81    4.10

 CAMBOD          305171    238073     190182     237823     25.05    237819     234963     268489     285714      20.14    3.10

 INDIA           291884    241323     195831     223302     14.03    238741     267016     275757     268794      12.59    2.91

 MEXICO          395034    405677     350027     207721    -40.66    402458     306302     277961     263371     -34.56    2.86

 HONDURA          28477     61508      51781      94561     82.62     66473      89534      96859     104288      56.89    1.13

 THAILND          99693    116670     102194      67270    -34.17    113004     108705      95129      81746     -27.66    0.89

 PHIL R          124395     94038      80385      55748    -30.65     86834      73904      77069      69401     -20.08    0.75

 SALVADR          54073     59054      58851      58557     -0.50     76859      27503      55968      58760     -23.55    0.64

 MALAYSA          52836     75507      63897      38736    -39.38     75942      60570      53015      50346     -33.70    0.55

 SRI LKA         113840     64648      45401      27165    -40.17     61134      44267      47131      46412     -24.08    0.50

 MADAGAS          17541     16056      13350      33151    148.32     15164      33473      34856      35857     136.46    0.39


 _ASEAN         1293705   1280296    1063231    1055375     -0.74   1291418    1247535    1247956    1272440      -1.47   13.80

 _CBI            109790    155994     144081     181887     26.24    183926     149655     184847     193800       5.37    2.10

 _CAFTA          101361    155101     143329     179882     25.50    181657     147370     182454     191654       5.50    2.08

 _SUB-SAHARA      52291     60871      41782      60228     44.15     45760      77767      76918      79317      73.33    0.86