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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 639:  W/G MMF KNIT SHIRTS / BLOUSES
                     Data in Doz., 12.50 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         43851951  44482670   38284961   41557069      8.55  44018666   46932775   47340243   47754778       8.49  100.00

 CHINA P       13827054  11988692   10180914   16076892     57.91  11696734   16570791   17360070   17884670      52.90   37.45

 VIETNAM        2865082   5234417    4483108    5739222     28.02   5034279    6118758    6253269    6490531      28.93   13.59

 INDNSIA        2728322   3285341    2908643    3169426      8.97   3281840    3434365    3433894    3546124       8.05    7.43

 MEXICO         3311523   3366561    2926551    2628995    -10.17   3382546    3104654    3083750    3069005      -9.27    6.43

 CAMBOD         2385903   2924007    2601208    1849800    -28.89   2889889    2399279    2300029    2172599     -24.82    4.55

 GUATMAL        1247458   1600545    1325962    1465514     10.52   1556063    1697762    1665739    1740097      11.83    3.64

 JORDAN         1731982   2093554    1803699    1438126    -20.27   2019049    1737257    1840423    1727981     -14.42    3.62

 PHIL R         1516542   1509460    1276998    1101242    -13.76   1529600    1369087    1341495    1333704     -12.81    2.79

 CHINA T        1960206   1472456    1260662    1085660    -13.88   1480881    1343465    1330756    1297454     -12.39    2.72

 SALVADR         402124    465844     380669     517856     36.04    446541     573418     572994     603031      35.04    1.26

 THAILND         709734    766093     641430     461950    -27.98    790782     643203     614915     586613     -25.82    1.23

 INDIA           549714    515809     448133     491141      9.60    523077     546208     555024     558817       6.83    1.17

 LESOTHO         283563    293458     204448     440128    115.28    282185     506593     514656     529138      87.51    1.11

 NICARAG         250784    482467     434298     447170      2.96    494692     416432     464860     495339       0.13    1.04

 HONDURA         573387    550284     475568     386584    -18.71    556297     457112     453793     461300     -17.08    0.97


 _ASEAN        10866859  14443102   12536393   12591015      0.44  14271406   14368669   14323904   14497724       1.59   30.36

 _CBI           3063381   3556048    3015747    3242447      7.52   3504085    3582578    3595972    3782748       7.95    7.92

 _CAFTA         3011113   3549579    3009745    3190197      6.00   3491362    3564184    3575287    3730031       6.84    7.81

 _SUB-SAHARA    1264981   1332900     996137    1425526     43.11   1228487    1763218    1728578    1762289      43.45    3.69

 _ANDEAN         348373    401181     323824     333105      2.87    355001     417130     416131     410462      15.62    0.86