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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 634:  OTHER M/B MMF COATS
                     Data in Doz., 34.50 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         12122515  10601296    9146983    8106074    -11.38  10697433   10263626   10025069    9560387     -10.63  100.00

 CHINA P        6234919   5140428    4512217    4405039     -2.38   5275913    5268593    5237426    5033250      -4.60   52.65

 VIETNAM        2064195   1750560    1532827    1278082    -16.62   1812466    1643760    1573564    1495815     -17.47   15.65

 HONDURA         279193    703096     528454     568020      7.49    588505     777807     768731     742662      26.19    7.77

 BNGLDSH         694722    727032     585644     464205    -20.74    673804     685406     654942     605593     -10.12    6.33

 INDNSIA         372449    355097     321245     324225      0.93    386802     359143     361413     358077      -7.43    3.75

 MEXICO          374666    182346     158547     125837    -20.63    215285     150824     153604     149636     -30.49    1.57

 PHIL R          140511    135741     123082     114530     -6.95    135841     118778     125587     127189      -6.37    1.33

 CAMBOD          179143    173361     141339      75610    -46.50    158167     144839     129727     107632     -31.95    1.13

 SRI LKA         232329    196512     170751      76948    -54.94    193694     140436     106050     102709     -46.97    1.07

 EGYPT           114885    103730      92988      90507     -2.67    102596     109196     102991     101249      -1.31    1.06

 JORDAN          142836     88797      79753      89703     12.48     99508      80857     116352      98747      -0.76    1.03

 THAILND         190634    151403     130453      73354    -43.77    151830     112259     103641      94304     -37.89    0.99

 SALVADR         268499    177033     140980      55315    -60.76    158311     124618     112064      91368     -42.29    0.96

 DOM REP          11175    126872     107044      53559    -49.97    109285     109022      86869      73387     -32.85    0.77

 MALAYSA          87357    101904      93010      51384    -44.75    103778      75691      65321      60278     -41.92    0.63


 _ASEAN         3037746   2670962    2344365    1917712    -18.20   2751293    2456410    2361237    2244309     -18.43   23.48

 _CBI            672308   1098956     861674     728578    -15.45    962142    1071930    1028774     965860       0.39   10.10

 _CAFTA          590736   1069568     832327     727075    -12.65    917285    1070125    1027275     964316       5.13   10.09

 _SUB-SAHARA      70640     58752      52630      47054    -10.59     71861      66290      49034      53176     -26.00    0.56