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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 628:  MMF TWILLS/SATEENS 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         32329104  32034652   27664768   22252481    -19.56  33876969   26131636   25429242   26622365     -21.41  100.00

 CHINA P       21918068  22594986   19460065   16678253    -14.29  24322409   18207102   18253779   19813174     -18.54   74.42

 KOR REP        3535065   2671443    2368841    2264884     -4.39   2747657    2938631    2774980    2567486      -6.56    9.64

 CHINA T        4947100   5031755    4325869    1276517    -70.49   4962941    2964028    2252177    1982403     -60.06    7.45

 CANADA          106591     24201      22977     900706   3820.03     25758     630232     901930     901930    3401.55    3.39


 _ASEAN         1002738    705035     635106     704369     10.91    872660     698270     717543     774298     -11.27    2.91