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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 810:  WOVEN FAB, SILK BLD/N-COT VEG FIB
                     Data in M2..,  1.00 M2 per M2. . 

                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         99036539 142770281  130473140   22719015    -82.59 150414774   52103363   41201257   35016156     -76.72  100.00

 CHINA P       83439830 127556919  117691953   16220720    -86.22 134365771   42713664   32283699   26085686     -80.59   74.50

 BELGIUM        1519057   2017593    1360461     964231    -29.12   1629135    1620956    1610562    1621363      -0.48    4.63

 INDIA          1192924   1035081     885403     885927      0.06   1190667     851713     776580    1035605     -13.02    2.96

 KOR REP         846868   2660952    2389837     631370    -73.58   2516506    1207790     994717     902485     -64.14    2.58

 ITALY          1571876   1306461    1058069     635942    -39.90   1393817     943770     922761     884334     -36.55    2.53

 U KING         1684115    789489     585668     359881    -38.55   1003776     551311     541756     563702     -43.84    1.61

 RUSSIA         1559717    774773     704674     470242    -33.27   1058936     638302     653581     540341     -48.97    1.54

 BELARUS        1080635   1394837    1318084     346071    -73.74   1463335     387821     421877     422824     -71.11    1.21

 IRELAND          14137    586976     508041     327107    -35.61    511507     441941     350314     406042     -20.62    1.16

 BRAZIL          536202    489187     388870     207249    -46.70    479130     356635     349189     307566     -35.81    0.88

 CHINA T         402934   1561251    1506968     120292    -92.02   1720484     398397     330165     174575     -89.85    0.50