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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 638:  M/B MMF KNIT SHIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 15.00 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         42821900  47079607   40303086   29788512    -26.09  47456235   39319719   38031852   36565033     -22.95  100.00

 HONDURA        9353961  11899968   10208940    5348585    -47.61  12131388    8014802    7661031    7039613     -41.97   19.25

 SALVADR        5260321   6797121    5683643    4125464    -27.42   6799815    5955868    5671485    5238942     -22.95   14.33

 NICARAG         966755   3831555    2956131    3660390     23.82   3142150    5006019    4783582    4535814      44.35   12.40

 MEXICO         5090546   4740163    4181975    2685760    -35.78   5051978    3460805    3317434    3243948     -35.79    8.87

 CHINA P        2631576   2384765    2058475    2854245     38.66   2301865    2950681    3109568    3180535      38.17    8.70

 VIETNAM        1220092   1906073    1586705    1604117      1.10   1893804    1902916    1875905    1923485       1.57    5.26

 INDNSIA        1542090   1542743    1381020    1280955     -7.25   1624522    1477796    1435068    1442678     -11.19    3.95

 THAILND        1534240   1697045    1432386     969908    -32.29   1666789    1271806    1248702    1234567     -25.93    3.38

 HAITI          5441235   1861847    1638413     862592    -47.35   2201079    1099165    1086194    1086026     -50.66    2.97

 JORDAN         1211697   1178155    1053633     944381    -10.37   1201720    1121929    1104980    1068903     -11.05    2.92

 EGYPT           850616   1002649     864584     841663     -2.65    990454    1099997     995344     979728      -1.08    2.68

 PHIL R          841721    733350     625793     551406    -11.89    761261     645902     646836     658963     -13.44    1.80

 DOM REP         586879   1739413    1618624     401309    -75.21   1760588     652301     591389     522098     -70.35    1.43

 GUATMAL         892019    595583     551119     465436    -15.55    684222     493666     499826     509900     -25.48    1.39

 LESOTHO         340520    553457     452143     377276    -16.56    503414     574688     528466     478590      -4.93    1.31


 _CBI          22564073  26776360   22702361   14894983    -34.39  26771950   21261922   20332918   18968982     -29.15   51.88

 _CAFTA        17116464  24909968   21059782   14023894    -33.41  24565348   20153607   19237732   17874080     -27.24   48.88

 _ASEAN         6466168   7055184    6026031    5191475    -13.85   7146738    6254065    6158292    6220628     -12.96   17.01

 _SUB-SAHARA     915129   1238385    1057787     942850    -10.87   1204126    1188463    1175371    1123448      -6.70    3.07

 _ANDEAN         334038    296663     257287     229493    -10.80    299251     289036     281006     268869     -10.15    0.74