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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 400: WOOL YARNS
Data in Kg.., 3.70 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 8688982 7997197 6921099 4872526 -29.60 8248934 6282064 6214234 5948624 -27.89 100.00
N ZEAL 1668962 1664260 1416041 551968 -61.02 1739149 953541 885914 800187 -53.99 13.45
CHINA P 905271 513891 409005 568975 39.11 476154 562398 657763 673861 41.52 11.33
U KING 604397 676019 599684 597027 -0.44 723354 651995 671706 673362 -6.91 11.32
CANADA 534870 879469 806259 553009 -31.41 878354 775534 733230 626219 -28.71 10.53
ITALY 1358834 888366 812832 474021 -41.68 1018994 585172 563552 549555 -46.07 9.24
GERMANY 713981 445425 375116 455652 21.47 516210 513658 540542 525961 1.89 8.84
PERU 440608 573528 484582 392828 -18.93 565398 500318 480242 481774 -14.79 8.10
TURKEY 169699 404549 294843 193125 -34.50 336951 321167 317481 302831 -10.13 5.09
MEXICO 113599 236584 203108 210623 3.70 212363 262175 257879 244099 14.94 4.10
INDIA 448648 362833 332507 194652 -41.46 373035 292968 268248 224978 -39.69 3.78
ROMANIA 20493 155614 127510 93857 -26.39 131701 158579 125540 121961 -7.40 2.05
AUSTRAL 217959 119145 100761 96097 -4.63 162262 112919 128342 114481 -29.45 1.92
ARGENT 421096 157786 127947 74673 -41.64 154336 61247 61473 104512 -32.28 1.76
REP SAF 169729 80867 76345 65981 -13.58 97625 61550 61792 70503 -27.78 1.19
THAILND 71209 67775 52530 45860 -12.70 74213 76810 62136 61105 -17.66 1.03
_ANDEAN 443896 575565 486070 394850 -18.77 568345 502496 482700 484345 -14.78 8.14
_SUB-SAHARA 169729 81187 76665 65981 -13.94 97945 61550 61792 70503 -28.02 1.19
_ASEAN 103875 145929 130684 46491 -64.42 153302 117118 102444 61736 -59.73 1.04