_________________________________________
                                          |                                         |
                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |                             November 19, 2009
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |                                         |
                                          |  By Category,  Preliminary 10/2009 Data |
                                          |_________________________________________|

(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 632:  MMF HOSIERY
                     Data in Dpr.,  3.80 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         95991346  96624683   83809130   87596578      4.52  96509761   99279130   99007083  100412131       4.04  100.00

 CHINA P       52684407  50819934   44911422   65445294     45.72  50538303   65749755   67127414   71353806      41.19   71.06

 KOR REP        8083224  10220176    8501333    3049111    -64.13   9791825    5792864    5390533    4767954     -51.31    4.75

 CHINA T        8039688   8010354    7138926    3594009    -49.66   8217406    5662674    5240773    4465437     -45.66    4.45

 SALVADR        5672732   5100347    4435848    2975376    -32.92   5361563    3640498    3607349    3639875     -32.11    3.62

 MEXICO         3545371   4005891    3429078    2461152    -28.23   4069862    3299102    3210652    3037965     -25.35    3.03

 INDNSIA        1679997   1724700    1354796    2247606     65.90   1504229    2857312    2800482    2617510      74.01    2.61

 ECUADOR        1947830   2117441    1547653    1582466      2.25   1738314    2303393    2211321    2152254      23.81    2.14

 COLOMB         1736751   1467978    1313789    1061717    -19.19   1619527    1346427    1344273    1215906     -24.92    1.21

 INDIA           966986   1157352     944941     932278     -1.34   1175023    1178471    1191908    1144689      -2.58    1.14

 MALAYSA        2656044   4409832    3691908     303842    -91.77   4566703    1855898    1528870    1021766     -77.63    1.02

 PAKISTN         709743    989388     841668     615540    -26.87    987598     856209     834368     763260     -22.72    0.76

 CAMBOD          178625    820401     653696     500096    -23.50    731877     757554     694929     666801      -8.89    0.66

 VIETNAM        1629015   1244461    1071160     388551    -63.73   1301457     621306     606872     561852     -56.83    0.56

 C RICA          970418    751045     706116     504427    -28.56    859920     559086     579600     549356     -36.12    0.55

 ITALY           791664    958983     842733     395732    -53.04    999093     579497     566660     511982     -48.76    0.51


 _ASEAN         6599626   8456510    6999435    3575062    -48.92   8376309    6277586    5794684    5032137     -39.92    5.01

 _CBI           6935011   6108349    5349228    3812989    -28.72   6440713    4578333    4564879    4572110     -29.01    4.55

 _CAFTA         6931230   6100253    5342091    3811547    -28.65   6433576    4575932    4562478    4569709     -28.97    4.55

 _ANDEAN        3691073   3597920    2872318    2648512     -7.79   3369179    3656958    3562774    3374114       0.15    3.36