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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 341:  W/G COT. SHIRTS/BLOUSES,N-KNIT
                     Data in Doz., 12.10 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         27516129  24811396   21722565   22052809      1.52  25470053   24325171   24796174   25141640      -1.29  100.00

 CHINA P       11952862  11743908   10246822   10689121      4.32  11966881   11806499   11975728   12186207       1.83   48.47

 INDIA          5499118   4535880    4044451    4109393      1.61   4642022    4351902    4498589    4600822      -0.89   18.30

 INDNSIA        2669935   2625215    2293708    2058514    -10.25   2627226    2339704    2377384    2390021      -9.03    9.51

 BNGLDSH        2377311   1835837    1634725    1704197      4.25   1971696    1797361    1885550    1905309      -3.37    7.58

 VIETNAM         838857    926603     769361    1064114     38.31    950044    1202318    1227141    1221356      28.56    4.86

 CAMBOD          511682    404405     354135     506969     43.16    425407     537916     544985     557239      30.99    2.22

 THAILND         625918    550857     483626     348377    -27.97    584362     433425     422255     415608     -28.88    1.65

 SRI LKA         516048    388925     309185     294334     -4.80    388533     380094     379864     374074      -3.72    1.49

 PAKISTN         371621    277943     243405     263309      8.18    298682     277644     291533     297847      -0.28    1.18

 PHIL R          447534    367408     323264     224813    -30.46    390960     270518     269166     268957     -31.21    1.07

 MEXICO          266982    159478     141223     137980     -2.30    171400     136988     144439     156235      -8.85    0.62

 MALAYSA         110568    129552     107423      82378    -23.31    120983     111107     110882     104507     -13.62    0.42

 HONDURA         182487    124094     105018      84582    -19.46    127635     107060     105794     103658     -18.79    0.41

 NICARAG          43085     59302      50371      59759     18.64     63325      61096      63028      68690       8.47    0.27

 KENYA            41638     38860      33908      46327     36.63     41719      48873      52171      51279      22.92    0.20


 _ASEAN         5206801   5016532    4343872    4291040     -1.22   5112479    4904511    4961332    4963700      -2.91   19.74

 _CBI            417471    317721     275027     235680    -14.31    329605     275441     272366     278374     -15.54    1.11

 _CAFTA          406070    310556     267918     225168    -15.96    322297     265409     263229     267806     -16.91    1.07

 _SUB-SAHARA     136251     79978      68237      75914     11.25     81928      89353      91742      87655       6.99    0.35