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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 625:  MMF POPLIN/BROADCLTH STAP/FIL
                     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         36241343  25658751   23558997   15287945    -35.11  27605544   17232824   17370648   17387699     -37.01  100.00

 THAILND        7446592   8425918    7728886    5642342    -27.00   9728077    5933273    6024916    6339374     -34.83   36.46

 PAKISTN        8115743   3996756    3670854    4409094     20.11   3880619    4278288    4681023    4734996      22.02   27.23

 CHINA P       15440910  10225494    9375617    2497265    -73.36  10808246    4254489    3945245    3347142     -69.03   19.25

 ARAB EM           1447         0          0    1857394       *           0    1142554    1629105    1857394        *     10.68


 _ASEAN         8441933   8747705    7975195    5974235    -25.09  10072887    6345668    6415261    6746745     -33.02   38.80