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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