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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 606:  NON-TEXTURED FILAMENT YARN
                     Data in Kg.., 20.10 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         48392148  48508915   40264518   28472134    -29.29  47190216   39763393   38182577   36716531     -22.19  100.00

 KOR REP       22890623  18916541   14632937   12740986    -12.93  17432091   18158096   17376150   17024590      -2.34   46.37

 CHINA P        9663615  11206193    9350080    6941880    -25.76  11418913    9833130    9328506    8797993     -22.95   23.96

 GERMANY        2724123   2519766    2197465    1011780    -53.96   2527395    1545142    1334180    1334081     -47.22    3.63

 CANADA         2170487   2248834    2036067    1022827    -49.76   2296998    1355900    1386555    1235594     -46.21    3.37

 LATVIA         1445218   1796396    1609574     955115    -40.66   1770760    1128519    1174746    1141937     -35.51    3.11

 INDNSIA        1161168   2519783    2390874     998160    -58.25   2602886    1278192    1268297    1127069     -56.70    3.07

 INDIA          1012161   1094445     904411     903338     -0.12   1046312    1044354    1042357    1093372       4.50    2.98

 TURKEY          863294   1141210     970624     804864    -17.08   1096197     957540     999084     975450     -11.02    2.66

 SLOVAK          200703    694834     483954     430000    -11.15    524297     566551     589691     640880      22.24    1.75

 JAPAN           609241   1058535     926655     414753    -55.24   1081225     714661     668555     546633     -49.44    1.49

 BELARUS        1050705    582794     487399     356193    -26.92    673815     433773     466905     451588     -32.98    1.23

 MEXICO         1079381   1855444    1707092     280003    -83.60   1830471     773780     574387     428355     -76.60    1.17

 U KING           25580    392801     336809     232612    -30.94    341285     337037     319729     288604     -15.44    0.79

 FRANCE           27929    221014     216910     241217     11.21    216935     250010     247738     245321      13.09    0.67

 EGYPT           561521    292101     267628     193862    -27.56    375637     193313     192289     218335     -41.88    0.59


 _ASEAN         1545258   2592290    2450997    1219934    -50.23   2663589    1489710    1500780    1361227     -48.90    3.71

 _CBI              3031      4253       2283      49289   2058.96      2510      18683      42724      51259    1942.19    0.14

 _CAFTA            3031      4253       2283      49289   2058.96      2510      18683      42724      51259    1942.19    0.14