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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 348:  W/G COTTON TROUSERS/SLACKS/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        109137963 107096797   92993618   88320744     -5.02 107867678  102352999  102494396  102423923      -5.05  100.00

 CHINA P       15825173  17360798   14249716   27770576     94.89  15553269   28094369   29460506   30881658      98.55   30.15

 VIETNAM        9396253  11084138    9580129    9040412     -5.63  11145617   10666728   10579751   10544421      -5.39   10.29

 BNGLDSH        8146601   9549122    8252826    8357489      1.27   9447068    9728038    9650743    9653785       2.19    9.43

 INDNSIA        7597442   8095759    7094561    6365340    -10.28   8165378    7288511    7421061    7366538      -9.78    7.19

 CAMBOD         8074755   8264543    7298508    5260126    -27.93   8552975    6447348    6277052    6226161     -27.20    6.08

 MEXICO         7142941   5748170    5027281    3773361    -24.94   5920501    4729779    4623538    4494250     -24.09    4.39

 INDIA          3638414   4482901    3958411    3498007    -11.63   4436665    3812196    3922283    4022497      -9.34    3.93

 SRI LKA        4074264   3562115    3008004    2338648    -22.25   3561415    3004614    2947368    2892759     -18.77    2.82

 EGYPT          2868967   3174681    2740054    2426620    -11.44   3109728    2939518    2946931    2861247      -7.99    2.79

 PAKISTN        2461930   2626971    2179830    1913299    -12.23   2513723    2397722    2348551    2360440      -6.10    2.30

 NICARAG        2281755   2443216    2153766    2007623     -6.79   2611423    2383191    2359962    2297073     -12.04    2.24

 JORDAN         3067999   2614458    2243374    1561785    -30.38   2654453    2029432    1980882    1932869     -27.18    1.89

 KENYA          2018124   2287658    1963714    1582070    -19.43   2312157    2222744    2099297    1906014     -17.57    1.86

 PHIL R         2957905   2822538    2441564    1464783    -40.01   2889238    1954025    1925145    1845757     -36.12    1.80

 HONDURA        3174704   2664107    2477660    1625418    -34.40   2919282    1890523    1820957    1811865     -37.93    1.77


 _ASEAN        31102460  33054933   28867489   23462384    -18.72  33732720   28240926   27962830   27649828     -18.03   27.00

 _CBI           9896837   8549158    7714883    6544168    -15.17   9152054    7367080    7411128    7378443     -19.38    7.20

 _CAFTA         9880992   8475755    7650893    6339092    -17.15   9087044    7218987    7235171    7163954     -21.16    6.99

 _SUB-SAHARA    5935484   6335139    5397576    4229275    -21.64   6193347    6095335    5730631    5166838     -16.57    5.04

 _ANDEAN         432286    400360     349423     289459    -17.16    403270     335042     338000     340396     -15.59    0.33