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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 644:  W/G 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         14580600  11508766    9844001    7785627    -20.91  11859361    9972684    9392706    9450392     -20.31  100.00

 CHINA P        8738944   5971257    5082086    3753210    -26.15   6301895    4822199    4765079    4642381     -26.33   49.12

 VIETNAM        4829066   4679894    4107314    2289469    -44.26   4781732    3822675    3150393    2862049     -40.15   30.28

 BNGLDSH           3838       151        151     577987  382672.8       596        612     101358     577987   96877.68    6.12

 NICARAG           2366     73859          0     445603       *        2366     495272     519462     519462   21855.28    5.50

 GUATMAL              6     22842      22029     208892    848.26     22029     129559     166821     209705     851.95    2.22

 JORDAN             513     47714      20614     157778    665.39     20614     205376     205356     184878     796.86    1.96

 INDNSIA         125193     83594      56969     143430    151.77     73020     145171     160358     170055     132.89    1.80

 THAILND         326395    114486     107053      72899    -31.90    136936      91123      80051      80332     -41.34    0.85

 CAMBOD           21709    160302     144308      63044    -56.31    153235      97153      94651      79038     -48.42    0.84

 SRI LKA         243491    188780     164723      19151    -88.37    190210      60233      55368      43208     -77.28    0.46

 HG KONG          58063     38523      22201       6196    -72.09     26543      28595      22318      22518     -15.16    0.24

 PHIL R           72281     74697      66617       9276    -86.08     66617      27480      23663      17356     -73.95    0.18

 EGYPT               23         0          0       7052       *           0       6704       6704       7052        *      0.07

 ROMANIA           2809      7779       7537       5524    -26.71      7560       5837       5820       5766     -23.73    0.06

 CHINA T           6376      1183       1183       5458    361.37      1183       5457       5457       5458     361.37    0.06


 _ASEAN         5375504   5113015    4482303    2578118    -42.48   5211582    4183602    3509116    3208830     -38.43   33.95

 _CBI              2376     96752      22080     655660   2869.47     24446     625998     687448     730332    2887.53    7.73

 _CAFTA            2376     96751      22079     655652   2869.57     24445     625990     687440     730324    2887.62    7.73