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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 335:  W/G COTTON COATS
                     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         18086180  18009364   15254364   12317266    -19.25  18504682   15650174   15194563   15072266     -18.55  100.00

 CHINA P       10572542  10545001    9148146    6879294    -24.80  11017094    8549980    8175040    8276149     -24.88   54.91

 VIETNAM        1457694   1622062    1327426    1304129     -1.76   1623481    1614065    1584679    1598765      -1.52   10.61

 INDNSIA        1103787   1457265    1155581    1086161     -6.01   1448712    1445942    1479104    1387845      -4.20    9.21

 CAMBOD          577652    559171     474087     638322     34.64    585550     671244     704718     723406      23.54    4.80

 BNGLDSH         482257    498030     398449     363326     -8.81    467086     503666     483727     462907      -0.89    3.07

 INDIA           599197    544996     483047     388832    -19.50    569095     477775     461773     450781     -20.79    2.99

 PAKISTN         574990    438195     372960     370616     -0.63    458398     460146     450016     435851      -4.92    2.89

 PHIL R          498919    330796     271730     174720    -35.70    351654     290910     251877     233786     -33.52    1.55

 SRI LKA         355640    284383     246984     191376    -22.51    316392     230584     230567     228775     -27.69    1.52

 GUATMAL         265137    159053     135054     182168     34.89    188273     186545     211790     206167       9.50    1.37

 JORDAN           39044    164795      69404      70545      1.64     75426     183831     172113     165936     120.00    1.10

 MALAYSA         197453    188657     109508      61901    -43.47    165103     149049     144770     141050     -14.57    0.94

 SALVADR          31804     50596      43450     111978    157.72     49315      77506     100087     119124     141.56    0.79

 THAILND         174182    147567     124426      91174    -26.72    147327     141901     126721     114315     -22.41    0.76

 HONDURA         117430    219318     207244      78832    -61.96    217397     121763     100784      90906     -58.18    0.60


 _ASEAN         4019876   4315620    3470044    3357644     -3.24   4330247    4319450    4297169    4203220      -2.93   27.89

 _CBI            448257    440818     395803     379386     -4.15    466679     394271     420915     424401      -9.06    2.82

 _CAFTA          437172    440540     395578     379376     -4.10    466375     394212     420859     424338      -9.01    2.82

 _SUB-SAHARA      36489     59699      46562      28254    -39.32     50287      47389      49570      41391     -17.69    0.27

 _ANDEAN          28230     25588      23041       9329    -59.51     24563      12161      12094      11876     -51.65    0.08