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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 603:  YARN > 85% ARTIFICIAL STAPLE FIBER
                     Data in Kg..,  6.30 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         20251052  17369693   15543286   13648273    -12.19  18844125   16120231   15872230   15474680     -17.88  100.00

 INDNSIA        7225253   7049763    6496231    6721688      3.47   7660385    7457287    7295492    7275220      -5.03   47.01

 THAILND        3074366   3168806    2828744    1489970    -47.33   3221964    2198324    2053634    1830032     -43.20   11.83

 CHINA P        3120421   1969098    1804245    1146655    -36.45   2354704    1437590    1307289    1311508     -44.30    8.48

 INDIA          1485856    980116     792478     780904     -1.46   1013111     986880     969391     968542      -4.40    6.26

 AUSTRAL         741630    632225     516466     741769     43.62    724264     711265     803692     857528      18.40    5.54

 KOR REP         697990    406408     396678     742931     87.29    530920     686077     755746     752661      41.77    4.86

 VIETNAM         646699    215914     176360     574773    225.91    312769     635712     673658     614327      96.42    3.97

 TURKEY          489483    558904     391424     398104      1.71    452625     581258     597655     565584      24.96    3.65

 SPAIN           530564    448499     378123     293998    -22.25    428674     359212     359379     364374     -15.00    2.35

 CHINA T         227933    663335     629565     170912    -72.85    688090     267966     226259     204682     -70.25    1.32

 SRI LKA         230785    309941     296227     159127    -46.28    369023     166235     222953     172841     -53.16    1.12

 PAKISTN         249931    229795     190075      59932    -68.47    224628     110216      74836      99652     -55.64    0.64

 CANADA          429457    146423     117071      64531    -44.88    181738      98226      98584      93883     -48.34    0.61

 AUSTRIA         724817    301702     271180      62671    -76.89    347257     190498     190498      93193     -73.16    0.60

 BELGIUM         116309    131847     124882      82897    -33.62    181147      98317      91782      89862     -50.39    0.58


 _ASEAN        10965690  10453448    9520300    8826836     -7.28  11214083   10308967   10040428    9759984     -12.97   63.07