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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 620: OTHER SYNTHETIC FILAMENT 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 637614174 688808396 576856340 513722013 -10.94 672754730 651999935 641161907 625674069 -7.00 100.00
INDIA 153556118 192721962 161070150 171892913 6.72 182850144 202719806 204984768 203544725 11.32 32.53
CHINA P 26451740 39304145 32413523 50927118 57.12 37545141 53752802 55897093 57817740 54.00 9.24
ARAB EM 37768514 59815096 49118747 41401988 -15.71 55653763 55588093 55020815 52098337 -6.39 8.33
TURKEY 30053760 30078972 24662012 35366951 43.41 29734409 40174289 40347700 40783911 37.16 6.52
CANADA 57800911 50836556 44762610 33913366 -24.24 53062607 45177805 44289675 39987312 -24.64 6.39
CHINA T 41283561 43878948 37134832 29581194 -20.34 43615022 38163507 36324954 36325310 -16.71 5.81
S ARAB 29933700 64672406 54382870 25893585 -52.39 59996618 39333124 35774442 36183121 -39.69 5.78
GREECE 49709776 35938767 26821300 24950413 -6.98 33646455 40168581 36987651 34067880 1.25 5.44
KOR REP 51420001 32136792 28032191 15910694 -43.24 34102444 21748127 20717774 20015295 -41.31 3.20
THAILND 16833689 18950190 15783810 14754459 -6.52 19336445 18798479 18915697 17920839 -7.32 2.86
MEXICO 15486708 19577287 17706643 10676019 -39.71 19577610 12710653 12676435 12546663 -35.91 2.01
VIETNAM 22209466 11020069 7101694 7447364 4.87 10374621 12073950 11769822 11365739 9.55 1.82
BELGIUM 20111016 13396313 11919268 9405050 -21.09 14497438 10382320 10431918 10882095 -24.94 1.74
U KING 15928071 14432213 12485598 8879442 -28.88 14768790 12070026 10960720 10826057 -26.70 1.73
COLOMB 2028867 10703878 9143787 7284723 -20.33 9983444 11222901 10867162 8844814 -11.41 1.41
_ASEAN 54737719 42967547 34946444 26947226 -22.89 43753574 38201459 37465683 34968329 -20.08 5.59
_ANDEAN 2028915 11011844 9143883 7284873 -20.33 9983540 11530803 11175214 9152834 -8.32 1.46
_CBI 6095403 3266545 2397807 1728688 -27.91 2711264 2858619 2829635 2597426 -4.20 0.42
_CAFTA 6078968 3266159 2397421 1728688 -27.89 2710878 2858233 2829635 2597426 -4.19 0.42
_SUB-SAHARA 576552 3161028 2775595 108418 -96.09 2775595 1368415 900659 493851 -82.21 0.08