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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 349:  BRASSIERES, OTHER BODY SUPPORT GAR
                     Data in Doz.,  4.00 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          9082188   8982777    7814955    6480371    -17.08   9181789    7821150    7769702    7648193     -16.70  100.00

 CHINA P        4154446   4076759    3629956    3283292     -9.55   4296424    3670672    3741883    3730095     -13.18   48.77

 BNGLDSH        1983269   2224469    1928547    1709344    -11.37   2191250    2069690    2016644    2005266      -8.49   26.22

 INDNSIA         764893    798290     648129     544855    -15.93    783353     714576     707274     695016     -11.28    9.09

 THAILND         880675    724927     644015     427633    -33.60    767164     518603     518854     508545     -33.71    6.65

 SRI LKA         373089    378172     332137     152124    -54.20    392015     247076     224249     198159     -49.45    2.59

 MEXICO          109926    155250     114105     115806      1.49    131753     185223     178239     156951      19.13    2.05

 HONDURA         206905    140957     121684      49048    -59.69    153336      77346      71321      68321     -55.44    0.89

 PHIL R           86743     89061      64920      38288    -41.02     80311      70759      66396      62429     -22.27    0.82

 MALAYSA         102552     99000      87681      25992    -70.36    105847      46417      38332      37311     -64.75    0.49

 VIETNAM          52887     42039      28701      18218    -36.52     35243      35718      36321      31556     -10.46    0.41

 C RICA           24656     39841      29808      15580    -47.73     34199      36617      32806      25613     -25.11    0.33

 SALVADR           7647     13854       6829      18104    165.10      8911      27824      27633      25129     182.00    0.33

 TURKEY           44507     51500      50214      10500    -79.09     56878      16367      12627      11786     -79.28    0.15

 MAURIT            5933      7243       4806         16    -99.67      4806       3523       3068       2453     -48.96    0.03


 _ASEAN         1924721   1777166    1494511    1065735    -28.69   1796351    1403361    1382651    1348390     -24.94   17.63

 _CBI            322003    221960     182492      94017    -48.48    225356     159608     147447     133485     -40.77    1.75

 _CAFTA          311421    213424     175219      84179    -51.96    216233     147789     135902     122384     -43.40    1.60