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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 800: SILK BLENDS OR NON-CTN VEG FIB YRN
Data in Kg.., 8.50 M2 per Kg. .
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 1813251 745414 657320 374855 -42.97 991852 518195 497016 462949 -53.32 100.00
CHINA P 124051 236411 185978 161841 -12.98 252486 230682 215900 212274 -15.93 45.85
INDIA 134378 163388 161354 111397 -30.96 180495 131752 131671 113431 -37.16 24.50
HUNGARY 89763 36981 30032 19841 -33.94 40346 29315 28949 26790 -33.60 5.79
ROMANIA 56578 21483 21462 22741 5.96 40828 26488 20595 22762 -44.25 4.92
FRANCE 65965 84111 82099 14467 -82.38 94606 24637 23138 16479 -82.58 3.56
PHIL R 218 26240 10400 15 -99.86 10400 15840 15840 15855 52.45 3.42
BELGIUM 16061 29081 25308 8624 -65.92 26582 19180 18901 12397 -53.36 2.68
CHINA T 13619 11443 8421 7172 -14.83 12684 10259 10651 10194 -19.63 2.20
ITALY 17579 11469 10403 5664 -45.55 14100 6455 6556 6730 -52.27 1.45
GERMANY 4724 26826 26750 3401 -87.29 26768 1404 3491 3477 -87.01 0.75
LITHUAN 36709 18846 18846 359 -98.10 37045 * * 359 -99.03 0.08
BRAZIL 967705 38 32 34 6.25 87583 34 36 40 -99.95 0.01
AUSTRIA 128973 53499 53499 * * 74490 * * * * *
PORTUGL 65438 0 0 * * 65438 * * * * *
_ASEAN 2613 26240 10400 895 -91.39 10400 16504 16697 16735 60.91 3.61