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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 359:  OTHER COTTON APPAREL
                     Data in Kg..,  8.50 M2 per Kg. . 

                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         46009892  41956857   35126303   35456147      0.94  41052251   42737425   42982105   42286701       3.01  100.00

 CHINA P       20068884  17290122   14223859   16287117     14.51  16707387   19292837   19455424   19353380      15.84   45.77

 PAKISTN        7204811   7032908    5795080    5948143      2.64   6769129    7435841    7445679    7185971       6.16   16.99

 MEXICO         4952882   4834068    4113469    3508737    -14.70   4927248    4323689    4290864    4229336     -14.16   10.00

 VIETNAM        2303114   2545654    2211982    2005948     -9.31   2536204    2446133    2445856    2339620      -7.75    5.53

 INDIA          1604344   2020206    1695488    1885081     11.18   1881808    2095973    2190519    2209799      17.43    5.23

 CAMBOD         1482068   1142371     927630    1152975     24.29   1138048    1306329    1366719    1367716      20.18    3.23

 BNGLDSH        1817542   1581786    1477896    1145540    -22.49   1607757    1232216    1231217    1249430     -22.29    2.95

 INDNSIA         601410    678867     620295     722245     16.44    682318     727799     774780     780817      14.44    1.85

 PHIL R          504870    488988     413448     414348      0.22    456648     495908     507214     489888       7.28    1.16

 HONDURA         794810    571441     459993     330007    -28.26    578484     453918     450181     441455     -23.69    1.04

 CHINA T         462016    450153     365639     240045    -34.35    430382     385776     337014     324559     -24.59    0.77

 KOR REP         295634    286985     225724     166551    -26.21    260492     250528     228967     227812     -12.55    0.54

 MADAGAS         136726    208592     171585     164758     -3.98    195297     210063     226250     201765       3.31    0.48

 CANADA          273001    205344     175865     162911     -7.37    226866     217681     208345     192390     -15.20    0.45

 THAILND         268528    238164     208306     132962    -36.17    239699     188731     173062     162820     -32.07    0.39


 _ASEAN         5269465   5197594    4452649    4476573      0.54   5128151    5247524    5354270    5221518       1.82   12.35

 _CBI           1932389    975027     789451     686563    -13.03   1000805     875599     883778     872139     -12.86    2.06

 _CAFTA         1522251    962193     777165     685219    -11.83    960201     872141     880240     870247      -9.37    2.06

 _SUB-SAHARA     168814    233065     193960     200892      3.57    218576     246901     264542     239997       9.80    0.57

 _ANDEAN         122562     84507      79002      39012    -50.62     93868      57497      50948      44517     -52.57    0.11