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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 352:  COTTON UNDERWEAR
                     Data in Doz.,  9.20 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        217147470 230823842  195427644  158590830    -18.85 229160061  203345245  199442929  193987028     -15.35  100.00

 HONDURA       39213934  42967953   36403509   23997858    -34.08  43491294   33092953   31805833   30562302     -29.73   15.75

 SALVADR       36595527  37177800   33039375   18266226    -44.71  38800668   25629301   24099359   22404651     -42.26   11.55

 INDIA         11898778  17594791   13937288   15102205      8.36  16039741   19158820   19228127   18759708      16.96    9.67

 BNGLDSH       15804512  19302196   16265312   14422400    -11.33  18307519   18369736   17788895   17459284      -4.63    9.00

 CHINA P       12157225  10529219    8873212   13801809     55.54   9960454   14859584   15397600   15457816      55.19    7.97

 THAILND       13408166  14618259   11995138   12379114      3.20  14058863   14914312   14952351   15002235       6.71    7.73

 VIETNAM        1290132   5474748    3523914   10492232    197.74   3854182   11569190   11955373   12443066     222.85    6.41

 DOM REP       11849131  12022452    9997405    7984238    -20.14  11754018   10717733   10351244   10009285     -14.84    5.16

 HAITI          5965118   7723028    6496586    6717186      3.40   7282440    8119942    8007774    7943628       9.08    4.09

 SRI LKA        7468584   8536260    6983550    5945921    -14.86   8058876    7667008    7906491    7498631      -6.95    3.87

 CAMBOD         4881874   7288280    6200713    4434210    -28.49   7011603    6083772    5918807    5521777     -21.25    2.85

 C RICA        17837180  11213674   10298172    4269951    -58.54  12703545    5536657    5277520    5185453     -59.18    2.67

 PAKISTN        4497425   4902696    4048016    3410665    -15.74   4957574    4370735    4491829    4265345     -13.96    2.20

 PHIL R         4079847   3913763    3715917    2958044    -20.40   4278215    3109713    3046193    3155890     -26.23    1.63

 MACAU          5836693   5347073    4360193    1611190    -63.05   5273439    3569008    3079516    2598070     -50.73    1.34


 _CBI         114874289 115035644   99644044   63758825    -36.01 117878964   86185335   82626340   79150425     -32.85   40.80

 _CAFTA       107026771 106317209   92280114   56994601    -38.24 109556784   77715185   74370172   71031696     -35.16   36.62

 _ASEAN        30013889  38562917   31601113   34490823      9.14  36582737   41372198   41402353   41452627      13.31   21.37

 _ANDEAN         870891   1067794     889120     675664    -24.01   1026991     870133     835999     854338     -16.81    0.44

 _SUB-SAHARA     102647     72806      39566     118250    198.87     40075     150615     155087     151490     278.02    0.08