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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 444:  W/G 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           623574    508064     467260     306176    -34.47    575276     342637     339681     346980     -39.68  100.00

 CHINA P         531196    432450     402253     241946    -39.85    506008     274013     265074     272143     -46.22   78.43

 THAILND            681       293          5      24821  496320.0         5      14087      19104      25109   502080.0    7.24

 SRI LKA              0      6381       6381      17761    178.34      6381      23247      23937      17761     178.34    5.12

 VIETNAM          20678     18139      10779       8348    -22.55     10779      12268      13948      15708      45.73    4.53

 ITALY            23701     14019      11894       6241    -47.53     15115       9743       9016       8366     -44.65    2.41

 KOR REP            500       725        317       2396    655.84       317       2784       2804       2804     784.54    0.81

 MAURIT               0         0          0          4       *           0          4          4          4        *      0.00

 PHIL R           39200     28505      28505          *       *       28505          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN           60563     46937      39289      33927    -13.65     39289      27113      33810      41575       5.82   11.98