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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 645:  M/B MMF SWEATERS
                     Data in Doz., 30.80 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           615761    330918     303287     288100     -5.01    337661     248135     270575     315731      -6.49  100.00

 CHINA P         237955     96540      89646     104842     16.95    100433      82539      97685     111736      11.25   35.39

 BNGLDSH         170274     98064      90330      47262    -47.68     93951      61893      57731      54996     -41.46   17.42

 EGYPT             7520      9472       9472      53035    459.91      9472       9800      21543      53035     459.91   16.80

 JORDAN            2714     19758      16695      20082     20.29     16695      16801      22132      23145      38.63    7.33

 MEXICO           22024     26189      21378      15044    -29.63     27411      16426      15902      19855     -27.57    6.29

 INDNSIA          20514     30758      29735       9332    -68.62     30391      17736      13795      10355     -65.93    3.28

 THAILND           3309      3563       3350       5439     62.36      3570       3585       4151       5652      58.32    1.79

 CHINA T          19435      7224       6711       3605    -46.28      8052       4669       4675       4118     -48.86    1.30

 ISRAEL           34063      4725       4725       1692    -64.19     10966       1763       2002       1692     -84.57    0.54

 LESOTHO          34996         0          0          *       *           0          *          *          *        *       *  


 _ASEAN           46234     41353      38575      19610    -49.16     41674      28124      25223      22388     -46.28    7.09

 _CBI             10894      3466       3189       5770     80.93      3351       4717       5388       6047      80.45    1.92

 _CAFTA           10859      3387       3128       5755     83.98      3290       4684       5355       6014      82.80    1.90