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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