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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 447:  M/B WOOL TROUSERS/BREECHES/SHORTS
                     Data in Doz., 15.00 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          1353758   1169428    1017684     817560    -19.66   1216721     988029     982470     969304     -20.33  100.00

 CHINA P         176601    146563     126199     190770     51.17    145054     173313     192658     211134      45.56   21.78

 MEXICO          203140    175071     152179     119734    -21.32    181896     141590     142248     142626     -21.59   14.71

 INDIA           183125    113219      99404      87711    -11.76    124956     100725     102978     101526     -18.75   10.47

 VIETNAM          70555     95331      79971      65612    -17.96     90511      82024      83873      80972     -10.54    8.35

 EGYPT            10606     55664      41468      60311     45.44     48184      80972      77722      74507      54.63    7.69

 INDNSIA         117068     96061      84106      50712    -39.70     96106      76995      72066      62667     -34.79    6.47

 ITALY           106475     78535      69141      48755    -29.48     88204      61069      60098      58149     -34.07    6.00

 CANADA          101272     98987      88702      39459    -55.52    103253      60546      58072      49744     -51.82    5.13

 COLOMB           79311     84831      73561      31719    -56.88     87586      49648      45424      42989     -50.92    4.44

 JORDAN           41127     46279      40955      26131    -36.20     45395      33612      33051      31455     -30.71    3.25

 DOM REP          45209     22853      18471      19693      6.62     26142      24102      24117      24075      -7.91    2.48

 THAILND          22764     13531      11872      11222     -5.48     15105      12473      11956      12881     -14.72    1.33

 BNGLDSH          21671     42228      40305      10514    -73.91     49991      20004      12737      12437     -75.12    1.28

 ROMANIA          12263     10752       8691       7393    -14.93     10743       9328       8625       9454     -12.00    0.98

 TURKEY           55199     20116      19026       7786    -59.08     27120      10384       9172       8876     -67.27    0.92


 _ASEAN          223391    220579     190622     131202    -31.17    217253     178847     173476     161159     -25.82   16.63

 _ANDEAN          79924     84960      73690      36672    -50.23     87818      54681      50377      47942     -45.41    4.95

 _CBI             62705     36927      31511      38012     20.63     42335      42178      42677      43428       2.58    4.48

 _CAFTA           62705     36515      31214      30128     -3.48     42038      35773      36000      35429     -15.72    3.66