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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 614:  MMF POPLIN / BROADCLOTH FABRIC
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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         67715294  45048846   39065028   32556675    -16.66  49065853   39195119   39780248   38540493     -21.45  100.00

 CHINA P       36472290  28342829   24856252   20682712    -16.79  29744465   25610841   25513476   24169289     -18.74   62.71

 PAKISTN        3488540   4435881    3307828    3559297      7.60   3783978    3939665    4460132    4687350      23.87   12.16

 THAILND        5727547   3136195    2875644    2517143    -12.47   4009994    2719927    3127086    2777694     -30.73    7.21

 MALAYSA        5176842   3206019    2803122    1484741    -47.03   3650655    1933730    1862196    1887638     -48.29    4.90

 INDNSIA        3347446   2161493    1985791     844239    -57.49   2245182     954910     951684    1019941     -54.57    2.65

 INDIA           807650    123113     122110     932897    663.98    127215     682382     695828     933900     634.11    2.42

 MEXICO         7453444    609553     371814     364163     -2.06   2281163     703979     668869     601902     -73.61    1.56

 SALVADR        1114799    887629     777382     434324    -44.13    882336     575445     566458     544571     -38.28    1.41


 _ASEAN        14251835   8503707    7664557    4846123    -36.77   9905831    5608567    5940966    5685273     -42.61   14.75

 _CBI           1125711    891794     778909     448437    -42.43    883863     592529     583209     561322     -36.49    1.46

 _CAFTA         1125711    891794     778909     447677    -42.53    883863     591769     582449     560562     -36.58    1.45