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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 618:  WOVEN ARTIFICIAL FILAMENT FAB.
                     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         27033675  26981958   24108885   13409379    -44.38  31799883   16527059   16135522   16282452     -48.80  100.00

 KOR REP       13091049  15698041   14292157    7804863    -45.39  19598429    8981159    9018903    9210747     -53.00   56.57

 CANADA         6066035   4647403    4010766    2510994    -37.39   5200492    3613369    3449700    3147631     -39.47   19.33

 CHINA P        2285296   1524813    1391232    1403837      0.91   1610102    1246632    1222909    1537418      -4.51    9.44

 JAPAN          2758240   2719098    2342662     662139    -71.74   2869024    1143939    1036262    1038575     -63.80    6.38

 ITALY          1589964   1402100    1257775     728371    -42.09   1471975     958413     859272     872696     -40.71    5.36