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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 631:  MMF GLOVES AND MITTENS
                     Data in Dpr.,  2.90 M2 per Dpr . 

                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         33979681  33927480   29002489   22241840    -23.31  34809028   28961090   28624347   27166831     -21.95  100.00

 CHINA P       22498156  22900289   19656454   16345824    -16.84  23206789   20620674   20471775   19589659     -15.59   72.11

 MEXICO         2730905   2593168    2208957    1355932    -38.62   2699297    1819967    1801651    1740143     -35.53    6.41

 KOR REP        1923521   1914440    1609621     714066    -55.64   2019513    1181512    1107207    1018885     -49.55    3.75

 CHINA T        1969342   1406219    1268908     794750    -37.37   1847214    1052989    1107941     932061     -49.54    3.43

 PAKISTN         862218   1062158     864642     584626    -32.39   1008941     884255     871819     782142     -22.48    2.88

 VIETNAM         619319    619607     541748     588406      8.61    652123     678700     692291     666265       2.17    2.45

 SRI LKA         790670    863479     707262     369982    -47.69    860171     620611     551985     526199     -38.83    1.94

 MALAYSA         747660    824329     683094     305329    -55.30    802183     518745     519268     446564     -44.33    1.64

 PHIL R          804081    582816     512865     358942    -30.01    607362     454862     441582     428893     -29.38    1.58

 HG KONG         156423    218924     173356     257510     48.54    193981     232957     288492     303078      56.24    1.12

 INDNSIA         295782    283094     244081     247228      1.29    280880     361710     312060     286241       1.91    1.05

 BNGLDSH         148459    388615     308976     122860    -60.24    348861     287612     212020     202499     -41.95    0.75

 MAURIT               4         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN         2545013   2339829    2007089    1566332    -21.96   2375082    2084234    2039222    1899072     -20.04    6.99