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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 646:  W/G 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          6076833   4694982    4217706    3789731    -10.15   4711181    4617252    4610041    4267007      -9.43  100.00

 CHINA P        3117325   2186847    1976778    2389211     20.86   2160673    2437853    2615528    2599280      20.30   60.92

 BNGLDSH        1141112   1163027    1059870     793054    -25.17   1113338    1092714    1025964     896211     -19.50   21.00

 INDNSIA         394324    232535     189792     153489    -19.13    210933     211008     212615     196232      -6.97    4.60

 CHINA T         288892    173579     149100      69226    -53.57    193407     142306     124649      93705     -51.55    2.20

 JORDAN           74954    139273     138297      92672    -32.99    149969      62719      76532      93648     -37.56    2.19

 GUATMAL          79231     59640      59182      67517     14.08     73384      58930      59945      67975      -7.37    1.59

 SALVADR          51568     68634      55386      46777    -15.54     69888      67384      60990      60025     -14.11    1.41

 HG KONG         467794    367092     319123       6415    -97.99    401606     269050     190164      54384     -86.46    1.27

 MEXICO           54778     43080      37356      38467      2.98     43119      42142      44622      44191       2.49    1.04

 VIETNAM          88967     27568      20932      24013     14.72     37695      31363      33046      30649     -18.69    0.72

 CAMBOD            9319     31738      31371      17001    -45.81     32471      38421      27029      17368     -46.51    0.41

 THAILND          63379     54564      52044      12445    -76.09     55992      40099      22064      14965     -73.27    0.35

 MAURIT               4         0          0         74       *           0         74         74         74        *      0.00


 _ASEAN          622304    361403     305529     213918    -29.98    353992     333720     307138     269792     -23.79    6.32

 _CBI            131545    130075     115446     114895     -0.48    144769     128000     122629     129524     -10.53    3.04

 _CAFTA          131515    129921     115292     114895     -0.34    144615     128000     122629     129524     -10.44    3.04