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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 459:  OTHER WOOL APPAREL
                     Data in Kg..,  3.70 M2 per Kg. . 

                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          2653123   2958451    2542880    2313168     -9.03   2969121    2881838    2779296    2728739      -8.10  100.00

 CHINA P        1839716   2182273    1856103    1632168    -12.06   2186592    2122260    2003291    1958338     -10.44   71.77

 INDIA           131508    166467     143562     144479      0.64    161256     178498     169176     167384       3.80    6.13

 ITALY           159706    138081     127605     126795     -0.63    137201     144558     138708     137271       0.05    5.03

 U KING           88657     76749      70786      82079     15.95     78019      71678      86085      88042      12.85    3.23

 VIETNAM          47099     35968      31657      75396    138.17     32448      44545      62140      79707     145.65    2.92

 IRELAND          18335     20149      17285      50489    192.10     19485      48113      54207      53353     173.81    1.96

 PERU             26467     23320      17023      17665      3.77     24320      22855      23720      23962      -1.47    0.88

 NEPAL            27526     24013      19254      16679    -13.37     24898      21109      22640      21438     -13.90    0.79

 GERMANY          17378     36792      35946      17389    -51.62     37115      18263      18723      18235     -50.87    0.67

 MAURIT            3856      2955       2946        112    -96.20      3390       1944        124        121     -96.43    0.00

 LESOTHO              9         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN          132251     74950      66951     101410     51.47     71907      76264      91146     109409      52.15    4.01

 _ANDEAN          44151     53227      40655      33007    -18.81     55560      47016      47333      45579     -17.96    1.67

 _CBI             25469     22825      20794      10596    -49.04     29067      13230      13237      12627     -56.56    0.46

 _CAFTA           25059     22810      20779      10513    -49.41     29052      13147      13154      12544     -56.82    0.46