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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 351:  COTTON NIGHTWEAR/PAJAMAS
                     Data in Doz., 43.50 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         22900954  21200534   18178011   14970034    -17.65  21118925   19143392   18726062   17992557     -14.80  100.00

 CHINA P       12204897  12080431   10480323    8454860    -19.33  12068740   10493316   10353343   10054968     -16.69   55.88

 BNGLDSH        2066657   1475422    1262896    1232840     -2.38   1536182    1521998    1525888    1445366      -5.91    8.03

 INDIA          1227786   1396934    1231767    1027829    -16.56   1410885    1233151    1231790    1192996     -15.44    6.63

 CAMBOD         1875811   1922900    1661624     891518    -46.35   1915075    1474752    1282400    1152794     -39.80    6.41

 PAKISTN        1162450    847611     687926     732519      6.48    815246     840490     886791     892204       9.44    4.96

 VIETNAM         508154    752277     588642     533405     -9.38    683613     760149     751121     697040       1.96    3.87

 PHIL R          638928    424041     320375     301208     -5.98    413537     433349     423517     404874      -2.09    2.25

 INDNSIA         401079    406897     322633     312992     -2.99    390672     482420     444545     397256       1.69    2.21

 THAILND         463917    312837     271619     283322      4.31    322515     335061     338120     324540       0.63    1.80

 MALAYSA         399701    192588     164525     224545     36.48    205985     263178     247695     252608      22.63    1.40

 MEXICO          220939    200217     176942     151639    -14.30    212435     174146     174162     174914     -17.66    0.97

 ARAB EM         104250     62182      20093     124323    518.74     31491     169578     168194     166412     428.44    0.92

 TURKEY          130857    100031      86471     113646     31.43     97124     139337     129442     127206      30.97    0.71

 SRI LKA         131962    169587     133755      67951    -49.20    147680     114172     107084     103783     -29.72    0.58

 GUATMAL         161705    243700     227152      73998    -67.42    239006     137096     105286      90546     -62.12    0.50


 _ASEAN         4299030   4024690    3342557    2554847    -23.57   3944536    3758667    3500430    3236980     -17.94   17.99

 _CBI            602150    437587     386004     237687    -38.42    420313     363244     326441     289270     -31.18    1.61

 _CAFTA          589135    436089     384506     227736    -40.77    418495     353498     316736     279319     -33.26    1.55

 _ANDEAN          80431     44988      38048      35798     -5.91     51762      42791      44240      42738     -17.43    0.24

 _SUB-SAHARA      15147      9880       9737      11617     19.31     11325      13977      10428      11760       3.84    0.07