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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 342:  COTTON SKIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 14.90 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         13453622  10293658    9043660    9111613      0.75  10238933   10165165   10171446   10361611       1.20  100.00

 CHINA P        6751389   4979059    4406264    3646729    -17.24   5028196    4070320    4050977    4219524     -16.08   40.72

 INDIA          1620409   1141619    1040246    1592553     53.09   1127662    1669553    1679797    1693926      50.22   16.35

 BNGLDSH         717384    756588     650651     988196     51.88    718694    1066206    1081024    1094133      52.24   10.56

 INDNSIA         815807    797414     716614     765298      6.79    757917     857594     853122     846098      11.63    8.17

 VIETNAM         551931    719469     626116     612094     -2.24    688515     688925     695221     705447       2.46    6.81

 CAMBOD          314244    249881     228451     288251     26.18    242119     308041     314556     309681      27.90    2.99

 GUATMAL         350996    171147     117768     161567     37.19    175804     212618     213143     214946      22.26    2.07

 HONDURA         280004    236931     167921     117237    -30.18    218863     196796     193431     186247     -14.90    1.80

 PHIL R          216829    168601     154630     171883     11.16    161432     186991     189040     185854      15.13    1.79

 SRI LKA         284383    208165     191003     167611    -12.25    215414     193321     188105     184773     -14.22    1.78

 THAILND         286352    181589     168444      98793    -41.35    210369     108504     107822     111938     -46.79    1.08

 MEXICO          125676     85316      66634      89760     34.71     74940     107876     109101     108442      44.71    1.05

 MALAYSA         127419     85527      74744      65851    -11.90    101744      73958      73045      76634     -24.68    0.74

 EGYPT           106718     41364      27537      50800     84.48     35127      58720      59112      64627      83.98    0.62

 NICARAG         129756     81308      70489      47504    -32.61     90548      58075      57723      58323     -35.59    0.56


 _ASEAN         2355601   2239202    2002894    2027775      1.24   2197603    2254109    2262765    2264083       3.03   21.85

 _CBI            837642    522748     387483     341172    -11.95    522310     485169     481403     476437      -8.78    4.60

 _CAFTA          836699    521795     386576     340841    -11.83    521251     484800     481080     476060      -8.67    4.59

 _SUB-SAHARA      51830     38233      14897      34485    131.49     20470      57901      57871      57821     182.47    0.56

 _ANDEAN          22905     15580      14898      11169    -25.03     16182      11610      11585      11851     -26.76    0.11