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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 617:  MMF TWILL AND SATEEN 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         32495592  31282745   27065094   17704085    -34.59  32543914   22579792   21761059   21921736     -32.64  100.00

 CHINA P       15140744  10911699    8521255    7830956     -8.10  10518086    9730229    9821450   10221400      -2.82   46.63

 BAHRAIN        1204019   8599303    8153908    4419854    -45.79   9357927    5524591    5142738    4865249     -48.01   22.19

 PAKISTN        5686721   4395204    3970151    2757293    -30.55   4736751    2822595    2748936    3182346     -32.82   14.52

 CANADA         3380039   2739678    2507848    1196363    -52.30   2983961    1649434    1595291    1428193     -52.14    6.51

 THAILND         456723   1180950    1010084     512564    -49.26   1087695    1137273     823328     683430     -37.17    3.12

 INDNSIA        2943564   1186449    1179750     137938    -88.31   1815648     128946     128946     144637     -92.03    0.66


 _ASEAN         3706226   2781358    2444011     693149    -71.64   3186195    1483980    1165710    1030496     -67.66    4.70