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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 443:  M/B SUITS, WOOL
                     Data in Nos.,  3.76 M2 per Nos . 

                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          6618822   5356140    4704625    4089343    -13.08   5697995    4771768    4888991    4740858     -16.80  100.00

 CHINA P        1304559   1492839    1354862    1364722      0.73   1570794    1452927    1502395    1502699      -4.34   31.70

 MEXICO          810619    756563     631307     794222     25.81    748220     865873     925152     919478      22.89   19.39

 VIETNAM         914362    635536     539435     448670    -16.83    680617     581294     589737     544771     -19.96   11.49

 INDNSIA         646479    572289     483984     314623    -34.99    613051     437282     450468     402928     -34.27    8.50

 ITALY           487666    380833     334260     220691    -33.98    412788     273667     269510     267264     -35.25    5.64

 BNGLDSH         162565    155925     138720     234408     68.98    168395     234766     243609     251613      49.42    5.31

 INDIA           267382    230717     183051     192519      5.17    219612     233504     255186     240185       9.37    5.07

 CANADA          855878    460223     436551     153309    -64.88    543550     215078     198594     176981     -67.44    3.73

 TURKEY           79826    123181     104832      97229     -7.25    117864     129473     120854     115578      -1.94    2.44

 JORDAN            8458      5300       5129      36494    611.52      9798      32881      34088      36665     274.21    0.77

 PHIL R          129119     45078      42215      29942    -29.07     52891      29973      34492      32805     -37.98    0.69

 HAITI                0         0          0      31542       *           0      22746      30693      31542        *      0.67

 HG KONG          33944     31881      27161      23271    -14.32     33081      28129      27909      27991     -15.39    0.59

 KOR REP         242888    165254     157928      14241    -90.98    192920      49573      32411      21567     -88.82    0.45

 SWITZLD          27911     25163      20831      15697    -24.65     25337      20751      20263      20029     -20.95    0.42


 _ASEAN         1721749   1273362    1083034     797685    -26.35   1366447    1058293    1084526     988013     -27.69   20.84

 _CBI            324640     67573      67572      31974    -52.68     92671      24250      31125      31975     -65.50    0.67

 _ANDEAN          41888     23630      17387      10032    -42.30     21982      18615      16489      16275     -25.96    0.34

 _CAFTA          324636     67567      67567        432    -99.36     92666       1500        428        432     -99.53    0.01