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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 336:  COTTON DRESSES
                     Data in Doz., 37.90 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         13220132  15319149   13230599   14534312      9.85  15148844   16372404   16497270   16622862       9.73  100.00

 CHINA P        7011498   7674049    6649408    6881441      3.49   7703801    7732968    7812121    7906082       2.63   47.56

 INDIA          2045165   2226525    1995772    2572065     28.88   2166125    2733703    2775791    2802818      29.39   16.86

 VIETNAM        1102715   1567400    1348138    1496305     10.99   1568793    1676304    1695291    1715567       9.36   10.32

 INDNSIA         517488    892180     729637    1016022     39.25    802289    1196126    1184825    1178565      46.90    7.09

 PHIL R          348657    475908     359650     545390     51.64    407898     653642     656115     661648      62.21    3.98

 BNGLDSH         362939    464751     355945     487214     36.88    430761     606305     626423     596020      38.36    3.59

 CAMBOD          156979    278621     241543     309644     28.19    281834     312898     324132     346722      23.02    2.09

 SRI LKA         268765    420622     389150     310461    -20.22    444689     336808     341028     341933     -23.11    2.06

 PAKISTN         193999    233933     209502     138717    -33.79    225967     190675     163453     163148     -27.80    0.98

 MALAYSA          68633     95826      75884     100001     31.78     86105     115229     115186     119943      39.30    0.72

 THAILND         153440    137444     115435      94894    -17.79    136197     127163     122840     116903     -14.17    0.70

 GUATMAL         121889    102027      97060      83148    -14.33    126455      81913      83990      88115     -30.32    0.53

 MEXICO           84077     76714      73683      79311      7.64     77566      82721      82750      82342       6.16    0.50

 PERU            118748     82587      68222      57157    -16.22     74074      76437      76900      71522      -3.45    0.43

 SALVADR          97441     72889      60892      44796    -26.43     78229      53479      52538      56793     -27.40    0.34


 _ASEAN         2349644   3459182    2882090    3575472     24.06   3295104    4095647    4111338    4152564      26.02   24.98

 _CBI            294562    251658     229997     167348    -27.24    289639     185486     182895     189009     -34.74    1.14

 _CAFTA          293387    247843     226273     164196    -27.43    285630     182332     179739     185766     -34.96    1.12

 _ANDEAN         149582    106438      89065      67394    -24.33    100224      90511      90426      84767     -15.42    0.51

 _SUB-SAHARA      11451     18752      18241       5654    -69.00     19705       8174       8093       6165     -68.71    0.04