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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 627:  MMF SHEETING 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          3776607   4275147    3112051    2505537    -19.49   3734220    3730234    3592518    3668633      -1.76  100.00

 CHINA P         976241    542067     442962    1341817    202.92    597889    1117935    1086384    1440922     141.00   39.28

 PAKISTN        1148991   1638299    1265157     463894    -63.33   1440778     925691     933303     837036     -41.90   22.82

 BAHRAIN              0    939309     566533     251662    -55.58    566533     913532     759939     624438      10.22   17.02

 TURKEY          101567    503347     455810     388814    -14.70    536052     437865     484246     436351     -18.60   11.89