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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