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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 436:  WOOL DRESSES
                     Data in Doz., 41.10 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           312164    351391     312313     265891    -14.86    354262     337849     317931     304969     -13.91  100.00

 CHINA P         212760    246339     220385     191119    -13.28    246872     242598     229391     217073     -12.07   71.18

 VIETNAM           7352     22012      15838      19006     20.00     17326      26968      23846      25180      45.33    8.26

 ITALY            18835     19372      17982      13556    -24.61     19174      15559      15044      14946     -22.05    4.90

 PHIL R           10827      9508       7733       9750     26.08      8250      11899      12084      11525      39.70    3.78

 INDNSIA           7050      5928       5794       4871    -15.93      7553       7620       3778       5005     -33.73    1.64

 HG KONG           4784      6512       5894       3150    -46.56      6341       3240       4916       3768     -40.58    1.24

 INDIA             1349      3061       2947       2997      1.70      3015       2218       2601       3111       3.18    1.02

 FRANCE            3706      2917       2626       2250    -14.30      2993       2460       2430       2541     -15.09    0.83

 ROMANIA           3034      1958       1834       1484    -19.08      2051       2230       1640       1608     -21.60    0.53

 MEXICO            9647      3557       3427       1359    -60.34      6114       1069       1434       1489     -75.65    0.49

 SRI LKA            510      3658       3466       1227    -64.60      3466       1419       1415       1419     -59.06    0.47

 TURKEY            2471      3275       3230        619    -80.85      3283       1929       1440        664     -79.79    0.22

 THAILND           2672      3366       3091        385    -87.54      3801       2511       1480        660     -82.64    0.22

 GUATMAL           5015      2164       1814        245    -86.49      3433        525        595        595     -82.67    0.20

 CAMBOD            1617      1354       1354        151    -88.85      2360       1476        410        151     -93.60    0.05


 _ASEAN           29552     42196      33835      35532      5.02     39315      50477      42970      43893      11.64   14.39

 _CBI              6378      3160       2762       1813    -34.36      5565       1984       2054       2211     -60.27    0.72

 _CAFTA            6378      3134       2736       1813    -33.74      5539       1984       2054       2211     -60.08    0.72