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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 414:  OTHER WOOL FABRICS
                     Data in Kg..,  2.80 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          3862429   3172950    2749298    1853143    -32.60   3524009    2343886    2284146    2276795     -35.39  100.00

 MEXICO         1016496    844590     707015     505808    -28.46    917491     645593     633026     643383     -29.88   28.26

 U KING          431153    392229     335310     231483    -30.96    407053     309210     298239     288402     -29.15   12.67

 CANADA          424050    325004     289804     235369    -18.78    357399     289114     305937     270569     -24.29   11.88

 CHINA P         254037    216914     210311     199865     -4.97    216916     176166     152606     206468      -4.82    9.07

 BELGIUM         203161    176693     151313     122213    -19.23    189251     153632     148212     147593     -22.01    6.48

 KOR REP         149828    156051     140681      98963    -29.65    186836     123999     121704     114333     -38.81    5.02

 GERMANY         180592    163444     139033      68062    -51.05    177064     113527     107772      92473     -47.77    4.06

 NETHLDS         182777    132408     122106      52030    -57.39    144724      65491      61668      62332     -56.93    2.74

 IRELAND         109164     94770      81546      46261    -43.27     94238      64980      59988      59485     -36.88    2.61

 ITALY           214333    112506     100602      46602    -53.68    123439      52907      53660      58506     -52.60    2.57

 N ZEAL           19786     67546      60244      47657    -20.89     64785      53177      56521      54959     -15.17    2.41

 SPAIN            46606     60152      49027      29962    -38.89     59706      43926      42895      41087     -31.18    1.80

 JAPAN            49914     44990      41930      36838    -12.14     43765      37997      39116      39898      -8.84    1.75

 INDIA           158198     64604      57381      28398    -50.51     77702      45306      43920      35621     -54.16    1.56

 PAKISTN         156737     99149      67551         30    -99.96    224208      31658      31628      31628     -85.89    1.39