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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 633:  M/B MMF SUIT-TYPE COATS
                     Data in Doz., 30.30 M2 per Doz . 

                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           477311    445229     380689     319070    -16.19    451084     402299     387764     383610     -14.96  100.00

 CHINA P         283717    270423     235969     162888    -30.97    275785     218166     199897     197342     -28.44   51.44

 VIETNAM          23640     39327      31151      43118     38.42     34066      44590      50271      51294      50.57   13.37

 INDNSIA          50992     38745      33147      27597    -16.74     39481      38589      36327      33195     -15.92    8.65

 DOM REP          33348     21201      15691      16605      5.82     23050      21038      21045      22115      -4.06    5.76

 CAMBOD           15189     11115      10346      14685     41.94     12600      10782      14163      15454      22.65    4.03

 INDIA             5297     12040       9463      12480     31.88      9851      16186      15725      15057      52.85    3.93

 PHIL R            6355      4241       4049       6958     71.84      4861       6639       7264       7150      47.09    1.86

 COLOMB            8860      8992       7398       5105    -30.99      8303       8291       7217       6699     -19.32    1.75

 SALVADR          10602      9562       8630       3760    -56.43     10789       4961       4329       4692     -56.51    1.22

 ITALY             8057      6806       6324       2148    -66.04      8885       3036       2522       2630     -70.40    0.69

 MAURIT               0         0          0         10       *           0         10         10         10        *      0.00

 LESOTHO              0        10         10          *       *          10          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN           97220     93951      79171      92491     16.82     91594     100828     108225     107271      17.12   27.96

 _CBI             47879     35108      27270      28856      5.82     37158      36020      35186      36694      -1.25    9.57

 _CAFTA           47879     34420      26715      24151     -9.60     36603      31187      30494      31856     -12.97    8.30

 _ANDEAN           9658     10454       8681       6050    -30.31      9651       9317       8231       7823     -18.94    2.04