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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 626:  MMF PRINTCLOTH 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         16086282  15846633   14065787   10002571    -28.89  16874285   12983056   12371772   11783417     -30.17  100.00

 BAHRAIN        2324567   6564873    5759805    3913655    -32.05   5975622    5352159    5352159    4718723     -21.03   40.05

 THAILND         321455   1476561    1132904    1771582     56.38   1244217    2036380    2191559    2115239      70.01   17.95

 ARAB EM              0   1143939     856862    1408965     64.43    856862    1141526    1447077    1696042      97.94   14.39

 PAKISTN        6665248   1015112    1015112    1629073     60.48   2323996    1376902    1186480    1629073     -29.90   13.83

 CHINA P        6069104   5233011    4976165    1215547    -75.57   6065985    2839617    1996848    1472393     -75.73   12.50


 _ASEAN          362910   1495869    1150352    1782058     54.91   1261665    2050475    2203895    2127575      68.63   18.06