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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 642:  MMF SKIRTS
                     Data in Doz., 14.90 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          7196283   5287098    4685073    4555948     -2.76   5452259    5107085    5071499    5157973      -5.40  100.00

 CHINA P        3142370   2222877    1985162    2089882      5.28   2308955    2235534    2252204    2327597       0.81   45.13

 VIETNAM         599270    655820     566222     654600     15.61    651563     730880     737237     744198      14.22   14.43

 INDNSIA         881981    703802     644002     517140    -19.70    739181     609248     575303     576940     -21.95   11.19

 INDIA           424170    197752     180517     202761     12.32    215645     213054     213867     219996       2.02    4.27

 GUATMAL         282144    229308     203384     174035    -14.43    228749     211273     202738     199959     -12.59    3.88

 CAMBOD          300017    118400      97537     128514     31.76    130680     138088     142804     149377      14.31    2.90

 MEXICO          226348    170535     153155     129048    -15.74    166514     151467     145769     146428     -12.06    2.84

 PHIL R          222620    147791     109058     107549     -1.38    129053     150529     150165     146282      13.35    2.84

 SRI LKA          91274     84597      70882      97752     37.91     81530     108505     108378     111467      36.72    2.16

 CHINA T         195614    138644     124374      86300    -30.61    144720     109579     106147     100570     -30.51    1.95

 BNGLDSH          65287     80952      67067      51868    -22.66     76788      70005      67755      65753     -14.37    1.27

 THAILND         101180     62929      54315      42028    -22.62     61650      53168      49984      50642     -17.86    0.98

 CANADA           85417     52118      46885      41800    -10.85     54428      50589      49641      47033     -13.59    0.91

 EGYPT             4333     21868      21595      42417     96.42     21632      42746      42798      42690      97.35    0.83

 JORDAN           95978     84650      80941      32532    -59.81     97245      37135      36422      36241     -62.73    0.70


 _ASEAN         2192866   1743708    1522246    1464771     -3.78   1776788    1700826    1673995    1686233      -5.10   32.69

 _CBI            408514    316529     278114     227319    -18.26    313674     278195     268423     265734     -15.28    5.15

 _CAFTA          407123    314921     276560     225471    -18.47    311943     276975     266658     263832     -15.42    5.12

 _SUB-SAHARA      59332     31757      31757       5934    -81.31     49234       5197       5199       5934     -87.95    0.12