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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 347:  M/B COT. TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                     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         74224644  73114549   62649827   59017512     -5.80  73051130   69975109   69920045   69482234      -4.89  100.00

 BNGLDSH       11646368  15302465   12862265   13952728      8.48  14612589   16612220   16597663   16392928      12.18   23.59

 MEXICO        13655007  12851575   10805583    9860917     -8.74  12913696   12112039   11973428   11906909      -7.80   17.14

 CHINA P        6284268   6617737    5383943   10660878     98.01   5768420   10635311   11279036   11894672     106.20   17.12

 VIETNAM        4074826   4142752    3611187    3464045     -4.07   4238557    4001216    4031500    3995610      -5.73    5.75

 PAKISTN        3824675   4081867    3573761    2831485    -20.77   4172154    3338578    3334458    3339591     -19.96    4.81

 EGYPT          2757816   2865060    2510171    2345219     -6.57   2870735    2695530    2694953    2700108      -5.94    3.89

 INDNSIA        3115308   2454349    2154669    2108313     -2.15   2484346    2334391    2369090    2407993      -3.07    3.47

 CAMBOD         3437759   3645147    3225020    1967312    -39.00   3712701    2564335    2466866    2387439     -35.70    3.44

 INDIA          2775003   2650279    2363585    1734917    -26.60   2706754    2058444    2032024    2021611     -25.31    2.91

 HONDURA        2241721   2320436    1911591    1310220    -31.46   2207720    1893319    1830479    1719065     -22.13    2.47

 SRI LKA        1313656   1589124    1361336    1298084     -4.65   1564483    1554734    1551907    1525872      -2.47    2.20

 NICARAG        2763981   2093916    1868053    1108060    -40.68   2331652    1390903    1358918    1333923     -42.79    1.92

 DOM REP        2243237   1443303    1248136     901236    -27.79   1605089    1180432    1143547    1096403     -31.69    1.58

 LESOTHO        1521221   1365055    1153685     862713    -25.22   1352836    1186567    1095335    1074083     -20.61    1.55

 SALVADR         721781    716708     698936     807091     15.47    774282     806797     835365     824863       6.53    1.19


 _ASEAN        12737167  12032620   10520189    8537988    -18.84  12255012   10313041   10216909   10050419     -17.99   14.46

 _CBI          10157874   8089291    7105188    4860335    -31.59   8626091    6169882    6057418    5844438     -32.25    8.41

 _CAFTA         9802725   7635158    6682315    4408190    -34.03   8134203    5702406    5580063    5361033     -34.09    7.72

 _SUB-SAHARA    3364956   2672818    2249196    1817641    -19.19   2699480    2387556    2315551    2241263     -16.97    3.23

 _ANDEAN        1022374    799352     688369     338784    -50.78    834359     523431     489044     449767     -46.09    0.65