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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 604:  YARN > 85% SYNTHETIC STAPLE FIBER
                     Data in Kg..,  7.60 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         32003947  26507245   23025200   16756245    -27.23  27216059   22027414   21157152   20238290     -25.64  100.00

 INDNSIA       13512899  13592061   11737889    9860592    -15.99  13207013   12403067   12029555   11714764     -11.30   57.88

 INDIA          2632580   2271675    1857207    1667948    -10.19   2415179    2100610    2120415    2082416     -13.78   10.29

 CHINA P        2888848   2694175    2331970    1711407    -26.61   2966807    2278574    2169580    2073612     -30.11   10.25

 CANADA         3845086   2297149    2071832     972303    -53.07   2465399    1420646    1339193    1197620     -51.42    5.92

 THAILND         584663    615237     463383     395671    -14.61    593090     618728     611804     547525      -7.68    2.71

 TURKEY         1953361   1319875    1211994     420146    -65.33   1395677     763877     615811     528027     -62.17    2.61

 ROMANIA        1083549    416348     225395     320508     42.20    377530     533275     533275     511461      35.48    2.53

 VIETNAM         390046    162898     142940     285314     99.60    159973     344281     325230     305272      90.83    1.51

 MEXICO          734373    572862     555823     244352    -56.04    663250     318579     303357     261391     -60.59    1.29

 CHINA T         647305    786003     785938     177757    -77.38    846749     230972     176370     177822     -79.00    0.88

 MALAYSA         220850    155340     106958     121351     13.46    122238     163413     148133     169733      38.85    0.84

 PHIL R          221077    267782     242213      80356    -66.82    247966     118992     118919     105925     -57.28    0.52

 GERMANY        2046157    821659     802784      39887    -95.03   1165558      77749      66479      58762     -94.96    0.29

 PAKISTN          17407    164913     164613      19026    -88.44    164613      96120      73077      19326     -88.26    0.10


 _ASEAN        15030595  14793318   12693383   10784290    -15.04  14350136   13689487   13274647   12884225     -10.22   63.66