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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 350:  COTTON DRESSING GOWNS, ROBES ETC.
                     Data in Doz., 42.60 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          9488178   8537282    7276162    6266638    -13.87   8723149    7690388    7594537    7527758     -13.70  100.00

 CHINA P        4479279   4592095    3948029    3110020    -21.23   4690518    3877674    3817963    3754086     -19.96   49.87

 VIETNAM         970436   1353733    1128499    1152317      2.11   1299896    1326850    1331843    1377551       5.97   18.30

 INDIA          1151161    508349     416091     552834     32.86    505084     705528     687247     645092      27.72    8.57

 INDNSIA         494735    422702     392097     372948     -4.88    496472     320351     351950     403553     -18.72    5.36

 CAMBOD          347031    291362     241304     287258     19.04    294351     356827     345986     337316      14.60    4.48

 MALAYSA         221033    232373     181083     125780    -30.54    207289     185826     177744     177070     -14.58    2.35

 SRI LKA         224679     68930      49386     153164    210.14     71565     123501     157456     172708     141.33    2.29

 PAKISTN         234123    225196     194284     136576    -29.70    214492     178827     162430     167488     -21.91    2.22

 BNGLDSH         151737    127416     111388     100023    -10.20    125715     150361     129790     116051      -7.69    1.54

 TURKEY          213548    162399     139138      61568    -55.75    177343     112625     100627      84829     -52.17    1.13

 GUATMAL          91259     72843      60938      38517    -36.79     74103      72803      65400      50422     -31.96    0.67

 PHIL R          168016     69738      55788      31186    -44.10     86955      52015      50863      45136     -48.09    0.60

 THAILND         105420     80511      69089      28113    -59.31     75431      47629      42783      39535     -47.59    0.53

 SALVADR          69098     46756      39185      24306    -37.97     51107      33120      32036      31877     -37.63    0.42

 DOM REP          20681     15709      13926      24606     76.69     17772      24370      25477      26389      48.49    0.35


 _ASEAN         2312051   2452268    2069347    2001761     -3.27   2461881    2293750    2306548    2384682      -3.14   31.68

 _CBI            308469    158183     136821      89469    -34.61    171724     132622     125207     110831     -35.46    1.47

 _CAFTA          308365    158163     136821      89468    -34.61    171621     132602     125187     110810     -35.43    1.47

 _ANDEAN          40909     11791      10668       9581    -10.19     12927       8590       9885      10704     -17.20    0.14