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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 331/631 :  GLOVES & MITTENS
                                            Data in Doz ,  2.90 M2 per Doz

                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     83080211  77784087    66866697   44983388    -32.73   80941235   60693314   59149128   55900778    -30.94  100.00

 O  CHINA P   53259915  50464100    43196853   30625101    -29.10   51928534   40678407   39620113   37892348    -27.03   67.79

 P  PAKISTN    4794660   5228075     4514457    2352923    -47.88    5441486    3577885    3543625    3066541    -43.65    5.49

 O  MEXICO     5714422   4879763     4193033    2378805    -43.27    5135883    3394697    3190476    3065535    -40.31    5.48

 O  KOR REP    3235752   2896565     2420115    1786241    -26.19    3037035    2388079    2357330    2262691    -25.50    4.05

 P  INDNSIA    3660571   3291849     2931158    1632573    -44.30    3581324    2293144    2237513    1993264    -44.34    3.57

 O  PHIL R     3601511   2951790     2598339    1465121    -43.61    3062675    1996284    1921018    1818572    -40.62    3.25

 O  SRI LKA    1630767   1847083     1570301     885109    -43.63    1874983    1357804    1191438    1161891    -38.03    2.08

 O  CHINA T    2141325   1608551     1453264     953392    -34.40    2054640    1257562    1306986    1108679    -46.04    1.98

 O  VIETNAM     619471    619723      541822     588493      8.61     652197     678750     692419     666394      2.18    1.19

 O  THAILND     946950    573491      549109     519134     -5.46     749842     496798     548453     543516    -27.52    0.97

 O  BNGLDSH     796337    985310      863076     415335    -51.88    1040961     688507     639065     537569    -48.36    0.96

 O  MALAYSA     810890    954447      794162     356343    -55.13     927987     611208     603456     516628    -44.33    0.92

 O  HG KONG     410832    431987      361570     384139      6.24     386709     422737     456341     454556     17.54    0.81


 O  _ASEAN     9723293   8478225     7497015    4573907    -38.99    9062850    6092622    6022701    5555117    -38.70    9.94

 O  _CBI        723775    581037      444550     273606    -38.45     502004     456740     450229     410093    -18.31    0.73

 O  _CAFTA      634280    465331      364043     224565    -38.31     410931     338609     336168     325853    -20.70    0.58