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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 438: WOOL KNIT SHIRTS/BLOUSES
Data in Doz., 12.50 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 1900161 1886221 1712323 1479270 -13.61 1917411 1780271 1688505 1653168 -13.78 100.00
CHINA P 1488892 1569750 1416018 1249444 -11.76 1576041 1501585 1417033 1403176 -10.97 84.88
ITALY 142707 89709 84623 60384 -28.64 95588 71231 74064 65470 -31.51 3.96
MEXICO 15245 18577 15371 38624 151.28 16767 34235 39731 41830 149.48 2.53
HG KONG 86100 50055 45801 28266 -38.29 58147 46075 40738 32520 -44.07 1.97
VIETNAM 8107 19283 18452 20246 9.72 18486 22159 21633 21077 14.02 1.27
MADAGAS 5904 7932 7906 13371 69.12 7906 13131 13493 13397 69.45 0.81
BNGLDSH 2699 1320 1309 8001 511.23 2027 6123 7564 8012 295.26 0.48
JORDAN 11706 11961 11961 6913 -42.20 11989 12288 9256 6913 -42.34 0.42
ROMANIA 6119 6543 6411 5551 -13.41 6768 5376 5525 5683 -16.03 0.34
CROATIA 3459 3204 3190 5583 75.02 3631 4349 4768 5597 54.14 0.34
PERU 8767 4456 3679 4667 26.86 4206 5013 5335 5444 29.43 0.33
TURKEY 5589 3954 3653 4001 9.53 4168 5679 4471 4302 3.22 0.26
IRELAND 2917 1353 1344 3614 168.90 1402 4152 3591 3623 158.42 0.22
PORTUGL 5038 3914 2712 1517 -44.06 4710 3292 2895 2719 -42.27 0.16
SWITZLD 2562 2699 2648 2491 -5.93 2776 2421 2494 2542 -8.43 0.15
_ASEAN 51885 49457 46687 24689 -47.12 58834 38261 31690 27459 -53.33 1.66
_SUB-SAHARA 6046 8307 8281 13437 62.26 8282 13197 13562 13463 62.56 0.81
_ANDEAN 10649 7501 6492 6323 -2.60 7088 6926 7369 7332 3.44 0.44
_CBI 14230 19479 19472 2338 -87.99 19737 2410 2455 2345 -88.12 0.14
_CAFTA 14230 19477 19470 2338 -87.99 19735 2408 2455 2345 -88.12 0.14