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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