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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                              October 23, 2008
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
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                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary  9/2008 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.

                                           Category 353:  M/B DOWN-FILLED COATS
                     Data in Doz., 34.50 M2 per Doz . 

                Calendar Years               Year-to-Date              Year-Endings                                YE  9/2008
 Country        2006       2007       9/2007     9/2008  % Change    9/2007     7/2008     8/2008     9/2008   % Change % Share

                                                   (P)                                                  (P)

 WORLD             9250     12724       7038      12083     71.68     10408      13091      16189      17769      70.72  100.00