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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 619:  POLYESTER FILAMENT FABRIC, LIGHT-WEIGHT
                     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        237537508 222600846  190643988  152024206    -20.26 231280446  190270453  187091002  183981064     -20.45  100.00

 KOR REP       77619960  69304482   56850109   50654400    -10.90  69530954   64417855   64467987   63108773      -9.24   34.30

 CHINA P       40752935  60184914   53270929   55670625      4.50  62100782   60935119   60522087   62584610       0.78   34.02

 CHINA T       17825105  19548275   16738800   10655565    -36.34  19278802   15875846   14667726   13465040     -30.16    7.32

 INDIA          8920088   9307111    7610776    7403048     -2.73   8805673    9755735    9390616    9099383       3.34    4.95

 TURKEY        16173227  14192797   12551246    6999938    -44.23  15880482    9136012    8888589    8641489     -45.58    4.70

 JAPAN         21581517  13553083   11439253    5325625    -53.44  15156377    8495620    8029863    7439455     -50.92    4.04

 VIETNAM        5699452   7386631    6453882    4113142    -36.27   7601357    5343806    5736236    5045891     -33.62    2.74

 THAILND        6543448   7027175    5953292    3403710    -42.83   6675910    5093889    4626707    4477593     -32.93    2.43

 INDNSIA        5495881   3477692    2845616    1545120    -45.70   3474272    2416596    2284236    2177196     -37.33    1.18

 MALAYSA        4663292   3510248    2960517    1305117    -55.92   3645029    1824391    1880755    1854848     -49.11    1.01

 CANADA         9483920   3491430    3132083    1102646    -64.80   4251315    1730037    1614840    1461993     -65.61    0.79

 MEXICO         3835973   1061087     931559     943438      1.28   1783131    1143578    1162916    1072966     -39.83    0.58

 FRANCE         3606217   1318069    1121380     651052    -41.94   1645979     964924     892444     847741     -48.50    0.46

 PAKISTN        2600486   2766246    2691095     729750    -72.88   3532116     941745     863098     804901     -77.21    0.44

 EGYPT          2201781    783632     686774     469339    -31.66   1152760     719255     657304     566197     -50.88    0.31


 _ASEAN        28446503  21894123   18705684   10367726    -44.57  22803709   14679700   14528952   13556165     -40.55    7.37