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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