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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 440:  WOOL SHIRTS/BLOUSES, NOT-KNIT
                     Data in Doz., 20.10 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            57118     37279      33803      32821     -2.91     39340      32645      33101      36297      -7.74  100.00

 CHINA P          17514     11677      10871       8991    -17.29     13240      10546      10446       9797     -26.00   26.99

 MEXICO           15822     13360      11989       7935    -33.81     13154      10714      10122       9306     -29.25   25.64

 INDIA             1665       768        682       4059    495.16       694       1805       3325       4145     497.26   11.42

 ISRAEL              65       625        536       3080    474.63       536        595        586       3169     491.23    8.73

 ITALY             2658      2452       2229       1787    -19.83      2519       2151       2081       2010     -20.21    5.54

 PERU               117        43         28       1243   4339.29        30        132        132       1258    4093.33    3.47

 COLOMB            1323      1574       1289        597    -53.69      1359        907        890        882     -35.10    2.43

 DOM REP            752       428        326        652    100.00       500        740        754        754      50.80    2.08

 VIETNAM             80      1317       1317        715    -45.71      1317        737        736        715     -45.71    1.97

 CANADA            1086       678        652        678      3.99       820        691        713        704     -14.15    1.94

 SALVADR            263       550        364        454     24.73       364        776        576        640      75.82    1.76

 FRANCE             631       332        315        463     46.98       380        457        467        480      26.32    1.32

 MOROC              463       278        273        318     16.48       305        330        302        323       5.90    0.89

 KOR REP            379        97         97        121     24.74       322        150        118        121     -62.42    0.33

 TURKEY             322       237        211         82    -61.14       309        154        106        108     -65.05    0.30


 _ANDEAN           1443      1625       1325       1850     39.62      1397       1052       1032       2150      53.90    5.92

 _CBI              1075      1130        841       1291     53.51      1028       1604       1517       1580      53.70    4.35

 _CAFTA            1075      1074        785       1291     64.46       972       1604       1517       1580      62.55    4.35

 _ASEAN            7760      1962       1905        956    -49.82      1910        928        923       1013     -46.96    2.79