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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 635:  W/G 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         14840411  13446433   11751022   10914967     -7.11  13665248   13274242   12955313   12610378      -7.72  100.00

 CHINA P        8803446   7892681    6920041    6746286     -2.51   7987515    8050059    7901943    7718926      -3.36   61.21

 VIETNAM        2079183   1951603    1687193    1774495      5.17   2004886    2052140    2052800    2038905       1.70   16.17

 INDNSIA         663697    568655     492983     499092      1.24    578524     577839     580163     574764      -0.65    4.56

 BNGLDSH         347898    577362     483522     349999    -27.61    542773     535917     487931     443839     -18.23    3.52

 CANADA          374985    325673     283750     193591    -31.77    328278     273282     266201     235514     -28.26    1.87

 PHIL R          153981    193887     166645     144339    -13.39    185903     160316     164372     171581      -7.70    1.36

 SALVADR         223362    221728     194363     139197    -28.38    226642     183338     173144     166562     -26.51    1.32

 MALAYSA          73423     98911      79835      99573     24.72     91732     115503     120283     118649      29.34    0.94

 JORDAN          143794    116075      98749      94803     -4.00    125969     107867     112995     112129     -10.99    0.89

 MEXICO          180566    127457     111461      89258    -19.92    132755     113346     108555     105254     -20.72    0.83

 SRI LKA         125514    115588      99281      78924    -20.50    113106     107515     101947      95231     -15.80    0.76

 GUATMAL         322455    216770     199696      69235    -65.33    245240     133488      97631      86309     -64.81    0.68

 CAMBOD          144888     85983      77176      76416     -0.98     90605      75070      75404      85223      -5.94    0.68

 ITALY           132667    130014     115019      54547    -52.58    132543      82797      76687      69542     -47.53    0.55

 THAILND         216410     96143      85506      57591    -32.65    105775      81557      79768      68228     -35.50    0.54


 _ASEAN         3332745   2996870    2590248    2656723      2.57   3058391    3067301    3078040    3063345       0.16   24.29

 _CBI            652578    645641     584946     296247    -49.35    688826     477310     380799     356942     -48.18    2.83

 _CAFTA          629372    603756     543237     293784    -45.92    634241     468445     374536     354303     -44.14    2.81

 _SUB-SAHARA     129408    106430      97142     122520     26.12    114300     109712     111228     131808      15.32    1.05