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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 431:  WOOL GLOVES/MITTENS
                     Data in Dpr.,  1.80 M2 per Dpr . 

                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           767226    909246     785820     586770    -25.33    898729     750327     692820     710196     -20.98  100.00

 CHINA P         530528    644770     556084     346201    -37.74    633619     429380     453075     434887     -31.36   61.23

 ITALY            76695     48275      36234      42269     16.66     48442      58766      54074      54310      12.11    7.65

 CHINA T           8338      6572       6179      52441    748.70      6179      55253      53438      52834     755.06    7.44

 PHIL R           22081     81321      79063      22510    -71.53     81845      82140      25083      24768     -69.74    3.49

 MAURIT               2         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN           24748     99238      96950      23425    -75.84     99823      83029      25937      25713     -74.24    3.62