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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 600:  TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                     Data in Kg..,  6.50 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        110194600  86435643   75597925   70209579     -7.13  90682736   85183622   85537254   81047297     -10.63  100.00

 CANADA        51524893  38041672   33453426   38313230     14.53  40180845   44840211   45722056   42901476       6.77   52.93

 MEXICO        17481397  13594752   12091989    9114248    -24.63  14776921   11084181   10814302   10617011     -28.15   13.10

 CHINA T        7410607   5908222    5158810    4976817     -3.53   6041322    6097575    5995872    5726229      -5.22    7.07

 INDNSIA        6769747   5942820    5194473    3097748    -40.36   6295281    4052473    4063669    3846095     -38.91    4.75

 CHINA P        3127355   2752657    2014187    2755760     36.82   2372740    3327420    3426581    3494230      47.27    4.31

 INDIA          5628734   4444321    3918480    2757362    -29.63   4877494    3564175    3432449    3283203     -32.69    4.05

 GERMANY         556613    758076     331630    1833858    452.98    340326    2252609    2256057    2260304     564.16    2.79

 MALAYSA        4319898   3702910    3494035    1808915    -48.23   3974069    2531038    2434794    2017790     -49.23    2.49

 ITALY          5730698   3938873    3542220    1594311    -54.99   4335022    2303131    2231590    1990964     -54.07    2.46

 THAILND        2915152   2503797    2172373    1247340    -42.58   2580817    1721836    1641830    1578764     -38.83    1.95

 ISRAEL         1158879   1689592    1465396    1016229    -30.65   1684110    1230383    1277732    1240425     -26.35    1.53

 KOR REP         884718    935980     797662     495062    -37.94    884775     638421     661167     633380     -28.41    0.78

 SLOVENI         408041    271637     228773     212269     -7.21    269421     255689     240580     255133      -5.30    0.31

 VIETNAM         180883    436498     332466     143397    -56.87    346394     292475     278596     247429     -28.57    0.31

 EGYPT           887126    302036     301308     200300    -33.52    462399     198868     199948     201028     -56.52    0.25


 _ASEAN        14191341  12601974   11209296    6297400    -43.82  13218171    8613771    8418889    7690078     -41.82    9.49