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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 339:  W/G KNIT SHIRTS/BLOUSES, 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        234585407 233343056  199657364  181233734     -9.23 235054796  215993694  215074062  214919426      -8.57  100.00

 CHINA P       21173333  23403993   18626167   34694796     86.27  21420874   35455816   37067979   39472622      84.27   18.37

 VIETNAM       22269518  30613235   25961743   25425245     -2.07  29826492   29530040   29699891   30076737       0.84   13.99

 INDNSIA       15380396  19256422   16427546   18274026     11.24  18843701   21298492   21200962   21102902      11.99    9.82

 GUATMAL       19773825  19496770   16899547   14423147    -14.65  19748296   17356198   17069885   17020370     -13.81    7.92

 MEXICO        20035361  17909520   15502502   12439354    -19.76  18473594   15195305   14938436   14846372     -19.63    6.91

 CAMBOD        15341549  16152034   13888955   11869525    -14.54  16282742   14203093   14303903   14132604     -13.21    6.58

 HONDURA       17164694  17271526   14819050   10398942    -29.83  18029668   13638101   13278409   12851418     -28.72    5.98

 INDIA          9067329   9124409    7683737    7889830      2.68   8824225    9504635    9462574    9330502       5.74    4.34

 NICARAG        8872329   9212367    8070700    7185125    -10.97   9288166    7735505    8110279    8326792     -10.35    3.87

 BNGLDSH        5901925   7016233    5875697    6298660      7.20   6705961    7630553    7626624    7439196      10.93    3.46

 SALVADR       10082504   9424783    7814509    3919058    -49.85   9560454    6238503    5870509    5529332     -42.16    2.57

 PAKISTN        4730156   5650431    4784263    4552476     -4.84   5576375    5589328    5519276    5418644      -2.83    2.52

 PERU           5430642   4509061    4017106    3057336    -23.89   4841119    3744874    3651316    3549291     -26.68    1.65

 PHIL R         7775384   5710436    5210584    2881188    -44.71   6352571    3681390    3545374    3381040     -46.78    1.57

 JORDAN         5537619   4209217    3811563    2875099    -24.57   4455521    3295891    3305524    3272753     -26.55    1.52


 _ASEAN        70256763  79769390   68362501   62780943     -8.16  79530796   74720769   74453073   74187832      -6.72   34.52

 _CBI          58513123  57537612   49470772   37412618    -24.37  58798284   46845784   46178073   45479458     -22.65   21.16

 _CAFTA        57587586  56930073   48916016   36878649    -24.61  58138580   46190899   45563558   44892706     -22.78   20.89

 _ANDEAN        5928793   4793194    4274575    3200568    -25.13   5169323    3927464    3828805    3719187     -28.05    1.73

 _SUB-SAHARA    6212169   4560176    3822619    2352721    -38.45   4671628    3539840    3343540    3090278     -33.85    1.44