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                                          | PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS |
                                          |         HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY!        |
                                          |         Preliminary 10/2009 Data        |
                                          |            By Merged-Category           |
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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 300/301 :  COTTON YARNS
                                            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)


 O  WORLD     70166081  55691434    49677908   30242163    -39.12   58551928   40488183   38455493   36255689    -38.08  100.00

 O  PAKISTN   22351864  13241347    11308168    6876294    -39.19   13970141   10511764    9787578    8809473    -36.94   24.30

 O  KOR REP    4849630   8296202     7768440    6338112    -18.41    8665833    6930703    6729822    6865874    -20.77   18.94

 O  MEXICO     7830893   7267188     6756904    5413611    -19.88    8417399    5405810    5683299    5923895    -29.62   16.34

 O  THAILND    6416140   7076785     6014731    3357199    -44.18    6987040    5379863    4970721    4419253    -36.75   12.19

 O  INDIA      9928610   8828849     8166977    3542251    -56.63    9109842    4861267    4401702    4204123    -53.85   11.60

 O  INDNSIA    4410981   4219719     3798658    2001339    -47.31    4290187    2965375    2726950    2422400    -43.54    6.68

 O  EGYPT      1216434   1100836      937607     519725    -44.57    1086652     767397     736780     682954    -37.15    1.88

 O  CHINA P    2182259   1707351     1608764     524896    -67.37    1656104     740391     622643     623483    -62.35    1.72

 O  VIETNAM     953854    944468      888947     532143    -40.14     983014     659604     637559     587664    -40.22    1.62

 O  CANADA     5839858    971068      639337     133858    -79.06     995009     887391     872709     465589    -53.21    1.28

 O  SPAIN       964823    526838      413803     230984    -44.18     572477     352357     349258     344019    -39.91    0.95

 O  HONDURA     236431     31553       17373     280954   1517.19      35884     279951     295134     295134    722.47    0.81

 O  ITALY       236713    184911      166252      85763    -48.41     201241     116114     114846     104422    -48.11    0.29

 O  SWITZLD     168590    243948      239456      17656    -92.63     266173      30968      30958      22148    -91.68    0.06

 O  MALAYSA     639483    179426      179426          *       *       379826      90000          *          *       *       *  


 O  _ASEAN    12819681  12677868    11139232    5890681    -47.12   12973960    9099962    8335230    7429317    -42.74   20.49

 O  _CAFTA      271763     64983       50803     281791    454.67      69564     303497     311868     295971    325.47    0.82

 O  _CBI        271763     64983       50803     281791    454.67      69564     303497     311868     295971    325.47    0.82