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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 641:  W/G NOT-KNIT MMF SHIRTS / BLOUSES
                     Data in Doz., 12.10 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         17834566  15157152   13103004   11752576    -10.31  15362896   14276028   14112483   13806724     -10.13  100.00

 CHINA P        8919555   7979203    6859588    6403016     -6.66   8005397    7704776    7662281    7522631      -6.03   54.49

 INDNSIA        3085578   2700657    2440825    1922156    -21.25   2801307    2303614    2261599    2181988     -22.11   15.80

 VIETNAM         738153    876586     735255     763211      3.80    861482     902317     891760     904542       5.00    6.55

 INDIA           842248    579381     483991     587144     21.31    578668     686860     702606     682534      17.95    4.94

 MEXICO          944301    606881     513362     388067    -24.41    647265     509268     502376     481586     -25.60    3.49

 BNGLDSH         593227    538556     466722     314174    -32.68    539369     444575     397626     386008     -28.43    2.80

 HONDURA         331927    262904     220365     174922    -20.62    281643     213609     216680     217461     -22.79    1.58

 PHIL R          212755    121082      89690     160640     79.11    120352     202288     195887     192032      59.56    1.39

 CAMBOD          481310    211992     188039     112243    -40.31    227220     145608     143280     136196     -40.06    0.99

 EGYPT            79020     77786      67117     108333     61.41     81030     117599     116912     119002      46.86    0.86

 SALVADR         152851    126609     111836      89410    -20.05    130591     106609     103528     104183     -20.22    0.75

 MADAGAS          43009    109332      91754      85781     -6.51    105918     112811     107851     103359      -2.42    0.75

 GUATMAL         169125    147377     129183      78821    -38.99    157668     105124     103647      97015     -38.47    0.70

 NICARAG         131134    123051      97747      62221    -36.34    117340      95659      92035      87525     -25.41    0.63

 SRI LKA         239721    124551     112307      68705    -38.82    131911      94833      89676      80949     -38.63    0.59


 _ASEAN         4641275   3966824    3503144    2996840    -14.45   4075995    3600393    3541624    3460520     -15.10   25.06

 _CBI            904594    776447     656614     544621    -17.06    808809     674673     672478     664454     -17.85    4.81

 _CAFTA          902545    755817     638976     466141    -27.05    791088     600596     596265     582982     -26.31    4.22

 _SUB-SAHARA      63442    130864     109524     111463      1.77    124482     140064     135274     132803       6.68    0.96