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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 442:  WOOL SKIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 15.00 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           350319    276011     249559     172746    -30.78    282225     218246     203163     199198     -29.42  100.00

 CHINA P         146749    130781     116294      86892    -25.28    124216     112770     108577     101379     -18.38   50.89

 PHIL R           55192     26154      21513      21395     -0.55     26613      26171      25693      26036      -2.17   13.07

 INDNSIA           4020     15884      15695      11834    -24.60     15695       9157       9927      12023     -23.40    6.04

 THAILND          27360     17787      15358       9122    -40.60     20301      13919      10922      11551     -43.10    5.80

 VIETNAM          15484     13823      13245      10468    -20.97     15024      11900       9033      11046     -26.48    5.55

 INDIA            15791     16111      15579       7680    -50.70     16551      11679       9100       8212     -50.38    4.12

 ITALY            14136     10634      10066       5750    -42.88     11135       6944       6410       6318     -43.26    3.17

 SRI LKA           1622      6736       6199       2272    -63.35      6249       3244       3051       2809     -55.05    1.41

 MOROC             4229      5758       5747         98    -98.29      7943        800        359        109     -98.63    0.05


 _ASEAN          103233     75575      67738      52823    -22.02     79569      61236      55578      60660     -23.76   30.45