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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 607:  OTHER STAPLE FIBER 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         15185035  10986286    9342754    8297482    -11.19  11449446   10148279   10274634    9941014     -13.17  100.00

 INDNSIA        6647170   5571607    4817702    3757872    -22.00   5752601    4979106    4932224    4511777     -21.57   45.39

 CHINA P         610327    399682     295014    1148999    289.47    415363    1031238    1127291    1253667     201.82   12.61

 INDIA           755315    530086     380020     517460     36.17    474660     526674     614634     667526      40.63    6.71

 CANADA         1708176   1009731     912521     534832    -41.39   1193699     742892     728091     632042     -47.05    6.36

 KOR REP         788326    516936     404252     452575     11.95    430538     531394     530562     565259      31.29    5.69

 VIETNAM         667452    121831      63317     434312    585.93    122055     454413     454867     492826     303.77    4.96

 THAILND        1044231   1008085     941557     359024    -61.87   1131033     468621     492252     425552     -62.37    4.28

 MEXICO         1433315    829329     740250     290659    -60.74    883719     431125     403039     379738     -57.03    3.82

 PAKISTN         362643    347412     279416     239099    -14.43    402142     319307     307549     307095     -23.64    3.09

 PHIL R          301934     60329      39962     179777    349.87     39962     120742     200598     200144     400.84    2.01

 AUSTRAL         212220    194096     192843      49612    -74.27    234804      94751      57621      50865     -78.34    0.51


 _ASEAN         8660819   6761852    5862538    4769269    -18.65   7045651    6061166    6118225    5668583     -19.54   57.02