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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 338:  M/B KNIT SHIRTS, COTTON
                     Data in Doz.,  6.00 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        190166167 187299457  158146953  137925242    -12.79 187061718  171626673  170152181  167077746     -10.68  100.00

 HONDURA       36914111  34536229   28404728   18814568    -33.76  33879073   27673296   26553794   24946069     -26.37   14.93

 HAITI         14253379  16531163   13286245   14798846     11.38  15978206   18953151   18796256   18043764      12.93   10.80

 SALVADR       16417375  19775418   16501831   13524265    -18.04  19302457   17417014   17137468   16797852     -12.98   10.05

 CHINA P        9231780   8807005    7288896   11882475     63.02   8313526   12251689   12905208   13400584      61.19    8.02

 PAKISTN       14375345  13647398   11725419   10693215     -8.80  13809419   12844770   12750013   12615194      -8.65    7.55

 INDIA         12033435  11418424    9816499    8856426     -9.78  11461632   10385175   10576295   10458351      -8.75    6.26

 NICARAG       11092678  11147893    9316476    8419141     -9.63  11467535   10162530   10106625   10250558     -10.61    6.14

 BNGLDSH        7353913   9568434    8151900    8245539      1.15   9180634    9626006    9614425    9662073       5.24    5.78

 MEXICO        10286752  10290309    8729222    6492262    -25.63  10337828    8441650    8234442    8053349     -22.10    4.82

 INDNSIA        6090850   6963638    6133469    6405985      4.44   6995351    7181655    7316363    7236154       3.44    4.33

 VIETNAM        6131380   7031095    5816960    5931735      1.97   6925952    6961408    7105716    7145870       3.18    4.28

 GUATMAL        5624644   5747332    5059201    4732960     -6.45   5856123    5469540    5362166    5421091      -7.43    3.24

 CAMBOD         6071926   5951156    5177899    3800946    -26.59   6171449    4817385    4704873    4574203     -25.88    2.74

 PERU           4118750   3920873    3441279    2428947    -29.42   4032231    3080333    2959308    2908541     -27.87    1.74

 THAILND        3679518   3530727    3014979    2119389    -29.70   3495805    2872611    2815401    2635137     -24.62    1.58


 _CBI          87032052  89890219   74515917   61556615    -17.39  88846833   81009898   79407738   76930917     -13.41   46.04

 _CAFTA        72660797  73276076   61154274   46751661    -23.55  72785503   62034086   60593908   58873463     -19.11   35.24

 _ASEAN        26936005  27074660   23326970   20380580    -12.63  27454248   24536087   24549585   24128270     -12.11   14.44

 _ANDEAN        5035608   4436859    3902195    2604781    -33.25   4577627    3351496    3209669    3139445     -31.42    1.88

 _SUB-SAHARA    4520754   3129368    2700175    1955992    -27.56   3253016    2422449    2411444    2385185     -26.68    1.43