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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