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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 340:  M/B COTTON SHIRTS, NOT KNIT
                     Data in Doz., 20.10 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         33453727  29848599   25528541   23302932     -8.72  30435810   28158468   28068152   27622990      -9.24  100.00

 CHINA P        5643327   6355321    5305834    6482885     22.18   6167660    7055405    7285551    7532372      22.13   27.27

 BNGLDSH        8015639   6857931    6058541    5620689     -7.23   7186139    6898525    6837569    6420079     -10.66   23.24

 INDNSIA        3287070   2883995    2480942    2165892    -12.70   3005881    2633186    2612733    2568945     -14.54    9.30

 VIETNAM        2414923   2278538    1865614    1823371     -2.26   2302813    2201170    2189633    2236295      -2.89    8.10

 INDIA          2905811   2607967    2248108    1712278    -23.83   2627380    2207099    2143825    2072137     -21.13    7.50

 SRI LKA        1143909    960933     826210     719432    -12.92    992937     876585     873709     854155     -13.98    3.09

 SALVADR         869211    871928     735747     595383    -19.08    878379     773715     751097     731564     -16.71    2.65

 MALAYSA         769374    618020     523552     479169     -8.48    638685     593998     598431     573637     -10.18    2.08

 PHIL R          697183    689774     586734     461526    -21.34    694138     559466     560715     564566     -18.67    2.04

 MAURIT          557104    577631     489582     449900     -8.11    575211     510483     536469     537949      -6.48    1.95

 HG KONG        1548917    945795     855757     366706    -57.15   1033309     514865     482907     456744     -55.80    1.65

 THAILND         626038    455473     375322     287395    -23.43    472148     374638     378039     367546     -22.15    1.33

 HONDURA         643047    466387     393304     279081    -29.04    476384     378991     354944     352164     -26.08    1.27

 MEXICO          463631    396563     331342     246347    -25.65    388316     332508     323845     311568     -19.76    1.13

 EGYPT           228328    297232     248055     223279     -9.99    280269     271187     272523     272456      -2.79    0.99


 _ASEAN         8248167   7282544    6118038    5383743    -12.00   7477024    6650413    6598802    6548249     -12.42   23.71

 _CBI           2147184   1796057    1521355    1171904    -22.97   1832160    1528772    1482964    1446606     -21.04    5.24

 _CAFTA         2138229   1782713    1510209    1156078    -23.45   1819743    1512477    1465909    1428582     -21.50    5.17

 _SUB-SAHARA     790963    835320     711434     570535    -19.80    818861     685956     701639     694421     -15.20    2.51

 _ANDEAN         105234     78318      68135      35999    -47.17     83895      48858      46966      46182     -44.95    0.17