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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 636:  MMF DRESSES
                     Data in Doz., 37.90 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         14275421  16299055   14185854   16254587     14.58  16306511   18399909   18362310   18367788      12.64  100.00

 CHINA P        7635980   9464013    8253112    9438292     14.36   9438899   10501448   10593958   10649193      12.82   57.98

 VIETNAM        1520322   1977705    1718258    2073927     20.70   1970949    2357569    2328454    2333374      18.39   12.70

 INDNSIA         787927    929087     802658     850789      6.00    915242    1002806     968148     977218       6.77    5.32

 PHIL R          681696    740310     627050     798551     27.35    725898     952249     912306     911811      25.61    4.96

 INDIA           509878    520758     449005     546071     21.62    512905     641474     633899     617824      20.46    3.36

 SRI LKA         566136    492074     404740     390434     -3.53    505076     494761     494952     477768      -5.41    2.60

 MEXICO          524781    390631     360268     418862     16.26    407205     466651     456805     449225      10.32    2.45

 BNGLDSH         137154    294217     268195     354980     32.36    295267     402113     379909     381002      29.04    2.07

 CAMBOD          240023    316097     274037     228561    -16.59    297964     298011     298277     270621      -9.18    1.47

 GUATMAL         446353    226792     212975     207757     -2.45    274825     217835     215335     221574     -19.38    1.21

 CHINA T         201830    136563     124816     173622     39.10    139218     171628     177562     185369      33.15    1.01

 SALVADR         152935    145403     120306     109609     -8.89    145341     139392     137468     134706      -7.32    0.73

 KOR REP          99969     64608      57689      78580     36.21     66276      76421      80516      85499      29.00    0.47

 TURKEY           85277     70677      62862      65958      4.92     71152      75218      73834      73773       3.68    0.40

 THAILND          83277     47787      37557      58441     55.61     50613      59015      65711      68671      35.68    0.37


 _ASEAN         3324962   4039257    3478850    4052750     16.50   3981099    4716323    4627290    4613157      15.88   25.12

 _CBI            658720    391345     346255     359309      3.77    434035     404823     401574     404399      -6.83    2.20

 _CAFTA          657840    391202     346112     355326      2.66    433891     400767     397518     400416      -7.72    2.18

 _SUB-SAHARA       9097      4095       1522      64444   4134.19      6204      65991      67065      67017     980.23    0.36

 _ANDEAN          90533     66288      58215      34794    -40.23     72283      44962      43055      42867     -40.70    0.23