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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 445: M/B SWEATERS, WOOL
Data in Doz., 12.40 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 697607 557409 515785 376821 -26.94 594022 495382 468605 418445 -29.56 100.00
CHINA P 518250 412053 395064 278511 -29.50 446933 359920 336258 295500 -33.88 70.62
ITALY 55957 51159 45702 29954 -34.46 54752 43005 39968 35411 -35.33 8.46
BNGLDSH 13965 11816 11281 24663 118.62 12378 13925 20172 25198 103.57 6.02
INDNSIA 5984 25041 16999 9174 -46.03 17102 25719 25706 17216 0.67 4.11
HG KONG 35897 10959 9716 7033 -27.62 16601 10018 8588 8276 -50.15 1.98
U KING 10813 6440 5542 4777 -13.80 7199 5877 5451 5675 -21.17 1.36
MADAGAS 16607 10289 9847 4045 -58.92 13114 8719 5692 4487 -65.78 1.07
VIETNAM 1856 5494 1510 318 -78.94 1510 4919 4443 4302 184.90 1.03
CHINA T 1581 1710 907 1895 108.93 1136 2454 2746 2698 137.50 0.64
ECUADOR 3357 2233 1794 2155 20.12 2467 3160 2949 2594 5.15 0.62
PERU 5529 3179 2685 1368 -49.05 3572 2343 2141 1862 -47.87 0.44
ALBANIA 0 1216 970 1001 3.20 970 1313 1066 1247 28.56 0.30
IRELAND 3127 1141 1037 1102 6.27 1367 1252 1445 1206 -11.78 0.29
ROMANIA 1031 782 745 1022 37.23 778 634 959 1059 36.16 0.25
TURKEY 805 880 829 898 8.28 868 775 831 949 9.29 0.23
_ASEAN 13026 31942 19882 10205 -48.67 20062 32019 30458 22265 10.98 5.32
_SUB-SAHARA 16690 10363 9907 4930 -50.24 13181 9320 6544 5386 -59.14 1.29
_ANDEAN 9299 5721 4698 3697 -21.31 6328 5802 5461 4720 -25.41 1.13