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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 435:  W/G 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          1744364   1824489    1690458    1372257    -18.82   1837621    1660265    1573103    1506288     -18.03  100.00

 CHINA P         975477   1100720    1016734     834285    -17.94   1093268    1011676     931498     918271     -16.01   60.96

 VIETNAM         164698    183126     175241     106529    -39.21    183485     158764     142102     114414     -37.64    7.60

 DOM REP          72012     86081      80348     102829     27.98     86475     105928     113339     108562      25.54    7.21

 INDNSIA          25872     60519      55522      62833     13.17     56362      62321      70169      67830      20.35    4.50

 GUATMAL          70399     52793      51814      53992      4.20     58292      53724      53705      54971      -5.70    3.65

 INDIA            44344     44965      42677      46616      9.23     45670      50047      52480      48904       7.08    3.25

 PHIL R           78648     52614      45942      32138    -30.05     52919      41340      41185      38810     -26.66    2.58

 ITALY            47804     38961      36621      23773    -35.08     40022      28407      26787      26113     -34.75    1.73

 BNGLDSH          24269     18358      17090      24182     41.50     17266      17511      24395      25450      47.40    1.69

 THAILND          31302     39354      35062      14410    -58.90     42590      28400      23295      18702     -56.09    1.24

 MEXICO           23215     13142      10451       8342    -20.18     12583      12422      11828      11033     -12.32    0.73

 SRI LKA           6345     11731      10246       7378    -27.99     11293      10355      11720       8863     -21.52    0.59

 FRANCE           10262      8738       8093       4765    -41.12      9330       5735       5433       5410     -42.01    0.36

 MOROC             3972      6064       3984       2538    -36.30      5960       4561       4438       4618     -22.52    0.31

 CANADA            8453      8697       7937       3566    -55.07      9144       5440       5182       4326     -52.69    0.29


 _ASEAN          302730    336790     312943     216551    -30.80    336532     291357     277235     240398     -28.57   15.96

 _CBI            156716    146161     138481     161521     16.64    152331     165097     172719     169201      11.07   11.23

 _CAFTA          156716    146114     138434     160541     15.97    152284     164812     172097     168221      10.47   11.17

 _ANDEAN          10249      9982       8582       5927    -30.94      9979       8883       7967       7327     -26.58    0.49