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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 643:  M/B MMF SUITS
                     Data in Nos.,  3.76 M2 per Nos . 

                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          5882368   4957916    4089941    3232470    -20.97   5094443    4122441    4160246    4100445     -19.51  100.00

 CHINA P        4427937   3671166    3036857    2435882    -19.79   3829270    3111335    3141580    3070191     -19.82   74.87

 DOM REP         918231    951051     750032     506331    -32.49    889634     701506     688385     707350     -20.49   17.25

 VIETNAM         141519    167930     158508     125437    -20.86    201314     134917     147673     134859     -33.01    3.29

 PHIL R           42013     60537      51588      32007    -37.96     56536      36909      37590      40956     -27.56    1.00

 INDIA            14454     17707      17324      22431     29.48     17324      25222      24354      22814      31.69    0.56

 INDNSIA          23256      8805       7002      19793    182.68      9059      13222      17526      21596     138.39    0.53

 CAMBOD          101041     23688      23688      15343    -35.23     37414      26868      19494      15343     -58.99    0.37

 GUATMAL          46068      8675          0       5056       *           0      13731      13731      13731        *      0.33

 CHINA T          26182     10264      10255      11391     11.08     10255      15131      15131      11400      11.17    0.28

 HG KONG             59        85         77      10203  13150.65       106       1321       2730      10211    9533.02    0.25

 HUNGARY          14315      4629       4629      10092    118.02      8024       7739      10720      10092      25.77    0.25

 ITALY             6891     10380       8703       5593    -35.73     10247       7588       7201       7270     -29.05    0.18

 KOR REP          54032      3813       3813       6667     74.85      3813       6667       6667       6667      74.85    0.16

 EGYPT              264       972        972       5233    438.37       972          *       4361       5233     438.37    0.13

 MEXICO            7366      3230       2609       4204     61.13      3131       5526       5087       4825      54.10    0.12


 _CBI            964443    959726     750032     514413    -31.41    889634     716590     705115     724107     -18.61   17.66

 _CAFTA          964443    959726     750032     511592    -31.79    889634     715395     702321     721286     -18.92   17.59

 _ASEAN          308333    261006     240831     192595    -20.03    304368     211933     222299     212770     -30.09    5.19