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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