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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 345:  COTTON SWEATERS
                     Data in Doz., 30.80 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         10227707   9353351    8049245    7871222     -2.21   9874126    9474024    9490719    9175328      -7.08  100.00

 CHINA P        5554302   5188901    4409855    6675954     51.39   5035088    6409883    7091592    7455000      48.06   81.25

 BNGLDSH         441857    492120     360772     309068    -14.33    500343     513070     461099     440416     -11.98    4.80

 HG KONG        2203081   1991813    1812697     109763    -93.94   2517958    1160991     731372     288879     -88.53    3.15

 INDNSIA         194878    210770     186089     172908     -7.08    214380     222357     223111     197589      -7.83    2.15

 THAILND         243068    271525     247803     121863    -50.82    296037     223911     159263     145585     -50.82    1.59

 KOR REP         246152    265438     221977      59665    -73.12    268648     225003     187524     103126     -61.61    1.12

 VIETNAM          53859     78326      69126      82717     19.66     73206      99062      92887      91917      25.56    1.00

 CHINA T         141098    284838     239349      30729    -87.16    303329     161482     115753      76218     -74.87    0.83

 CAMBOD           52588     65185      45209      46037      1.83     51837      74370      70460      66013      27.35    0.72

 JORDAN           55604     20038      20038      48161    140.35     36758      45036      51138      48161      31.02    0.52

 INDIA           120154     39946      35928      38617      7.48     50062      40223      43124      42635     -14.84    0.46

 PAKISTN          40062     49521      44659      37388    -16.28     51714      36725      34053      42250     -18.30    0.46

 PERU             70023     53432      45542      28860    -36.63     54345      38901      40741      36750     -32.38    0.40

 PHIL R           91077     24611      17533      11363    -35.19     32170      16942      15524      18441     -42.68    0.20

 SALVADR          86312      6941       6221      15086    142.50     20733      16319      18737      15806     -23.76    0.17


 _ASEAN          669724    661234     576549     436009    -24.38    678734     639083     563600     520694     -23.28    5.67

 _ANDEAN          77186     57575      49364      32204    -34.76     60634      42972      44685      40415     -33.35    0.44

 _CBI            277733     22431      20410      22024      7.91     65099      24257      26660      24045     -63.06    0.26

 _CAFTA          276530     21664      19643      21934     11.66     64297      24220      26620      23955     -62.74    0.26

 _SUB-SAHARA     113016     15396      13911       8112    -41.69     29624       8479       8770       9597     -67.60    0.10