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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 432:  WOOL HOSIERY
                     Data in Dpr.,  2.30 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           924800    793780     697911     493281    -29.32    854875     699381     656489     589150     -31.08  100.00

 KOR REP         411353    236727     219283     128615    -41.35    288857     203960     202913     146059     -49.44   24.79

 CHINA P         118169    167019     157619     132142    -16.16    176671     181860     151294     141542     -19.88   24.02

 ITALY           105886    102045      87196      71084    -18.48    107410      97531      94801      85933     -20.00   14.59

 REP SAF          10241     42475      20828      19038     -8.59     21806      40434      36739      40685      86.58    6.91

 MEXICO           21135     69675      65018      20318    -68.75     70073      28147      26173      24975     -64.36    4.24


 _SUB-SAHARA      10241     42489      20835      19050     -8.57     21813      40454      36756      40704      86.60    6.91