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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 448:  W/G WOOL SLACKS/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           878997    602505     534803     301002    -43.72    653714     426518     386476     368704     -43.60  100.00

 CHINA P         300693    199697     181804     118868    -34.62    208824     154072     141480     136761     -34.51   37.09

 PHIL R          162098    103083      91103      24068    -73.58    108720      56797      45558      36048     -66.84    9.78

 VIETNAM          42407     38240      31363      24444    -22.06     33792      34015      31115      31321      -7.31    8.49

 INDIA            40121     47254      44425      26762    -39.76     59041      31843      25863      29591     -49.88    8.03

 THAILND          61693     50357      41348      18074    -56.29     52052      37311      30899      27083     -47.97    7.35

 INDNSIA          16512      7782       7583      23690    212.41     14575      18261      22922      23889      63.90    6.48

 JORDAN           33032     30721      25032       6059    -75.79     28901      13016      10973      11748     -59.35    3.19

 ITALY            22813     17484      15735       9885    -37.18     18584      12280      11942      11634     -37.40    3.16

 MEXICO            8753      4721       4015       7782     93.82      4887       5511       6971       8488      73.69    2.30

 KENYA            10209     13843       8750       1717    -80.38     13916      10400      10400       6810     -51.06    1.85

 SRI LKA           9438      6374       5855       5960      1.79      7761       6738       6520       6479     -16.52    1.76

 MOROC            42810     21755      21032       3598    -82.89     29205       6589       5535       4321     -85.20    1.17

 UKRAINE           9130      4615       4426       1276    -71.17      6325       1630       1473       1465     -76.84    0.40

 JAPAN            17544      2578       2551        208    -91.85      7320        233        230        235     -96.79    0.06

 LESOTHO            133         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN          285992    204524     176459      90983    -48.44    214236     149755     131876     119048     -44.43   32.29

 _CBI             24679      9332       8164       7105    -12.97     11654       7364       8241       8273     -29.01    2.24

 _CAFTA           24679      9312       8164       7082    -13.25     11654       7321       8198       8230     -29.38    2.23

 _SUB-SAHARA      10358     13848       8755       1728    -80.26     13921      10412      10411       6821     -51.00    1.85