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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 434:  OTHER M/B WOOL COATS
                     Data in Doz., 45.10 M2 per Doz . 

                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           368552    428080     391036     391958      0.24    423600     450532     451200     429002       1.28  100.00

 CHINA P         196020    261323     239867     257120      7.19    257849     298039     298843     278576       8.04   64.94

 INDIA            53839     52766      45158      56177     24.40     51247      57020      61271      63785      24.47   14.87

 VIETNAM          31667     37963      35893      26952    -24.91     36936      35836      33798      29022     -21.43    6.76

 INDNSIA          29685     33247      31692      16163    -49.00     31835      21484      18642      17718     -44.34    4.13

 ITALY            11932     11856      10798       5859    -45.74     12205       7707       7443       6917     -43.33    1.61

 DOM REP          10051       778        675       6517    865.48      3569       3182       4155       6620      85.49    1.54

 HAITI                0      3241       3158       5052     59.97      3158       5223       4581       5135      62.60    1.20

 MEXICO            2995      3858       2754       2211    -19.72      2930       3548       3734       3315      13.14    0.77

 CANADA            2681      2309       2001       1444    -27.84      2685       2131       1891       1752     -34.75    0.41

 PHIL R            2281      1095       1095       1611     47.12      1124        388       1204       1611      43.33    0.38

 TURKEY            1997      2142       2032        976    -51.97      2270       1811       1308       1086     -52.16    0.25

 THAILND           3657      1949       1820        953    -47.64      2357       1612       1386       1082     -54.09    0.25

 UKRAINE           1966      1385       1383       1029    -25.60      1383       1102       1041       1031     -25.45    0.24

 BNGLDSH           1207      1852       1477         57    -96.14      1495       1492       1204        432     -71.10    0.10

 EGYPT               33      1408       1408        127    -90.98      1408         34         42        127     -90.98    0.03


 _ASEAN           67743     74449      70695      45926    -35.04     72448      59452      55091      49680     -31.43   11.58

 _CBI             11077      4453       4266      12461    192.10      7192       9100       9578      12648      75.86    2.95

 _CAFTA           11077      1212       1108       7409    568.68      4034       3877       4997       7513      86.24    1.75