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                                          |                                         |                             November 19, 2009
  ___________                             | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
 |           |                            |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
 |  IRAN     |                            | Preliminary 10/2009 Data in Million M2  |
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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.


                           Calendar Years       Year-to-Date                 Year-Endings                             YE 10/2009
 Ctrl, Cat, Product        2007      2008    10/2008   10/2009  % Change   10/2008    8/2009    9/2009   10/2009  % Change % Share

                                                           (P)                                               (P)

Cotton:
 369 Oth. Cot. Manuf.      0.037     0.050     0.050     0.007    -85.45     0.050     0.051     0.057     0.008   -84.90    0.00

Wool:
 410 Wool Woven Fab.       0.000     0.000     0.000      *          *       0.000      *         *         *         *       *  
 465 Floor Coverings       1.580     0.926     0.771     0.609    -20.98     1.054     0.768     0.773     0.764   -27.49    3.96
 469 Oth. Wool Manuf.      0.000     0.000     0.000      *          *       0.000      *         *         *         *       *  

Man-Made Fiber:
 665 Floor Coverings       0.037     0.036     0.030     0.029     -3.25     0.030     0.038     0.035     0.035    16.10    0.04

Silk and Vegetable Fiber:
 899 Other S/V Manuf       0.000     0.000     0.000      *          *       0.000      *         *         *         *       *