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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 629:  OTHER MMF FABRICS OF 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         68766259  54274974   47191180   32578628    -30.96  58001360   42812784   41296250   39662422     -31.62  100.00

 CHINA P       19406900  19681897   16461132   12918595    -21.52  20375196   16827948   16589991   16139360     -20.79   40.69

 CANADA        24733806  17656318   16111583    8369353    -48.05  19089582   12061720   11121469    9914088     -48.07   25.00

 INDIA          2823784   1304637    1075204    2298917    113.81   1379221    2267806    2282678    2528350      83.32    6.37

 TURKEY         3915175   3214106    2671629    1782040    -33.30   3304757    2394127    2414006    2324517     -29.66    5.86

 KOR REP        2225947   2406274    2064527     991599    -51.97   2591790    1518112    1495472    1333346     -48.56    3.36

 CHINA T        2164739   2114355    1803569     970025    -46.22   2325754    1470081    1374785    1280811     -44.93    3.23

 SPAIN           705080    725392     533014    1015471     90.51    680286    1348239    1146646    1207849      77.55    3.05

 ITALY          2945063   2120229    1879684     960112    -48.92   2430768    1166682    1257242    1200657     -50.61    3.03

 PAKISTN        2660456   1132961    1003198     650979    -35.11   1179084     731826     673955     780742     -33.78    1.97

 GUATMAL        3056367   1087869    1087692       6826    -99.37   1744137       7003       7003       7003     -99.60    0.02


 _ASEAN         1224237    854712     824564     348054    -57.79    886945     370504     364467     378202     -57.36    0.95

 _CBI           3057263   1093005    1092680      18193    -98.34   1749125      18166      18110      18518     -98.94    0.05

 _CAFTA         3057263   1092393    1092068      12209    -98.88   1748513      12182      12126      12534     -99.28    0.03