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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 615:  MMF PRINTCLOTH 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          6154402   5786659    5001588    2952743    -40.96   6131282    4543070    4355047    3737814     -39.04  100.00

 PAKISTN        3774121   2014864    1717142    1078592    -37.19   2190180    1790567    1589060    1376314     -37.16   36.82

 CHINA P        1797178   1749800    1645511     588388    -64.24   2079805    1047995     995457     692677     -66.70   18.53

 MEXICO          326882   1149218     952922     405031    -57.50   1101034     597064     597064     601327     -45.39   16.09