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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 410:  WOOL WOVEN FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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         19019588  16232581   14171903    7860277    -44.54  16833860   10872249   10514146    9920955     -41.07  100.00

 MEXICO         5718532   5022078    4348063    2341478    -46.15   5186992    3262979    3217913    3015493     -41.86   30.40

 ITALY          4679759   3490859    2970390    1612690    -45.71   3559269    2263147    2178381    2133159     -40.07   21.50

 CHINA P        3235654   3348470    2990578    1485902    -50.31   3479352    2092216    2012190    1843794     -47.01   18.58

 CANADA         1539477   1358308    1180633     879047    -25.54   1462301    1204602    1201689    1056722     -27.74   10.65

 KOR REP         448817    409032     375108     355167     -5.32    424951     390342     369802     389091      -8.44    3.92

 U KING          463960    427303     351706     191958    -45.42    425305     282621     279093     267555     -37.09    2.70

 CHILE           666372    310289     241098     186860    -22.50    344974     261603     275545     256051     -25.78    2.58

 INDIA           415856    341599     304726     173381    -43.10    351693     212266     183431     210254     -40.22    2.12

 COLOMB           66570     81526      73484     129917     76.80     84260     160019     137602     137959      63.73    1.39

 URUGUAY         390718    175089     153317      89925    -41.35    180406     122145     121056     111697     -38.09    1.13

 GERMANY         181573    148105     129270      58794    -54.52    157983      91971      89756      77629     -50.86    0.78

 PERU             88541    101388     100854      66711    -33.85    107106      69250      66554      67245     -37.22    0.68

 JAPAN           103524    126104     120364      55158    -54.17    135143      67613      69565      60898     -54.94    0.61

 TURKEY          225560    202346     187354      29253    -84.39    219308      51099      48204      44245     -79.83    0.45

 BRAZIL          153644     75550      70353      13412    -80.94     85010      18852      19562      18609     -78.11    0.19


 _ANDEAN         156617    182928     174352     200128     14.78    191380     232783     207656     208704       9.05    2.10