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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 640:  M/B NOT-KNIT MMF SHIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 20.10 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          9566217   7342264    6323367    4976226    -21.30   7660253    6162695    6095167    5995123     -21.74  100.00

 CHINA P        1913694   1646445    1422728    1291279     -9.24   1718774    1492898    1512884    1514996     -11.86   25.27

 HONDURA        1277547   1196506     978956     774724    -20.86   1193797    1027862    1011463     992274     -16.88   16.55

 MEXICO          898778    720041     603506     566740     -6.09    713129     687584     691304     683275      -4.19   11.40

 BNGLDSH        1095407    784516     718471     565661    -21.27    860052     680167     661958     631706     -26.55   10.54

 VIETNAM         857441    660617     587178     463599    -21.05    703964     540899     546563     537038     -23.71    8.96

 INDNSIA         649065    499548     403134     341849    -15.20    480318     446527     437468     438263      -8.76    7.31

 DOM REP         307356    329792     281186     154409    -45.09    333954     234626     219660     203015     -39.21    3.39

 NICARAG         505644    331103     282731     142856    -49.47    337594     211928     208753     191228     -43.36    3.19

 HAITI           113018    122192     111382     128496     15.37    131564     140266     136464     139306       5.88    2.32

 SALVADR         104723    118574      95432      97309      1.97    116556     120708     116028     120451       3.34    2.01

 EGYPT           258122    131774     119513      69484    -41.86    156401      81336      81093      81745     -47.73    1.36

 KOR REP         477366    144600     130904      56253    -57.03    174981      66567      67149      69949     -60.02    1.17

 MADAGAS         129064    101513      87396      48318    -44.71    107462      62243      64708      62435     -41.90    1.04

 INDIA           166737     97020      89579      47904    -46.52    113177      55336      53994      55345     -51.10    0.92

 SRI LKA         102871     88820      82253      37958    -53.85     97285      58735      45537      44525     -54.23    0.74


 _CBI           2341981   2116996    1765690    1307718    -25.94   2135352    1750253    1706108    1659024     -22.31   27.67

 _CAFTA         2227613   1994757    1654261    1178960    -28.73   2003568    1609715    1569347    1519456     -24.16   25.34

 _ASEAN         1884749   1328899    1143533     873840    -23.58   1391281    1076009    1069022    1059206     -23.87   17.67

 _SUB-SAHARA     212049    127690     110579      75002    -32.17    136467      94642      95845      92113     -32.50    1.54

 _ANDEAN          37545     30235      25577      12863    -49.71     31306      20088      19681      17521     -44.03    0.29