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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 446: W/G 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 2859230 2472199 2204645 1577703 -28.44 2563780 2283885 2086323 1845257 -28.03 100.00
CHINA P 2447919 2213567 1982912 1446661 -27.04 2292521 2065867 1878267 1677316 -26.84 90.90
ITALY 62200 44983 39876 28126 -29.47 44640 37675 35550 33233 -25.55 1.80
HG KONG 117244 68938 62370 10506 -83.15 80700 48231 41839 17074 -78.84 0.93
CHINA T 9015 9267 9154 14688 60.45 9690 16060 18625 14801 52.75 0.80
MADAGAS 6054 8081 4283 9199 114.78 5362 11589 12174 12997 142.39 0.70
BNGLDSH 60047 25320 19876 5858 -70.53 20908 17692 16498 11302 -45.94 0.61
PERU 12126 10166 8067 6652 -17.54 10359 9204 8909 8751 -15.53 0.47
U KING 11292 8222 7606 7877 3.56 8570 8727 8623 8493 -0.90 0.46
THAILND 44958 12862 8522 2706 -68.25 20181 13774 9566 7046 -65.09 0.38
INDNSIA 7236 4151 1470 4234 188.03 1741 6321 6795 6915 297.19 0.37
VIETNAM 138 1725 1725 6824 295.59 1731 5717 6197 6824 294.22 0.37
ECUADOR 12264 7868 6321 5098 -19.35 8091 7518 7335 6645 -17.87 0.36
IRELAND 13640 11661 11023 5922 -46.28 11924 5076 6512 6560 -44.98 0.36
TURKEY 4070 2996 2759 3458 25.33 2916 1633 3108 3695 26.71 0.20
MEXICO 8823 5081 4817 2848 -40.88 5379 3137 3074 3112 -42.15 0.17
_ASEAN 54514 23083 15814 13820 -12.61 28292 26072 22862 21089 -25.46 1.14
_ANDEAN 27482 20951 16794 12655 -24.64 21540 19200 18470 16812 -21.95 0.91
_SUB-SAHARA 6739 8383 4499 9330 107.38 5824 11750 12393 13214 126.89 0.72