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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 334/634 :  COATS
                                            Data in Doz , 34.50 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     22544441  21248226    18327753   15862350    -13.45   21431542   20140581   19611558   18782823    -12.36  100.00

 O  CHINA P   12185357  11339182     9975353    8375781    -16.04   11587523   10652104   10269354    9739610    -15.95   51.85

 O  VIETNAM    2460435   2184645     1880335    1569244    -16.54    2266509    2049596    1965935    1873554    -17.34    9.97

 O  PAKISTN    1291215   1388154     1170735    1306639     11.61    1369679    1473847    1495275    1524058     11.27    8.11

 O  BNGLDSH    1387076   1426751     1156408    1130301     -2.26    1333876    1504655    1506858    1400644      5.01    7.46

 O  HONDURA     307670    764604      580235     662581     14.19     654978     867341     865590     846950     29.31    4.51

 O  INDNSIA     684652    672753      596067     685933     15.08     706065     718563     719963     762619      8.01    4.06

 O  MEXICO      769700    588023      508574     333558    -34.41     617743     457126     431565     413007    -33.14    2.20

 O  CAMBOD      484314    411434      331521     313433     -5.46     395986     379802     398216     393346     -0.67    2.09

 O  INDIA       334612    251959      204931     234491     14.42     251773     278938     288658     281519     11.81    1.50

 O  PHIL R      264906    229779      203467     170278    -16.31     222675     192682     202656     196590    -11.71    1.05

 O  THAILND     290327    268073      232647     140624    -39.55     264834     220964     198770     176050    -33.52    0.94

 O  SALVADR     322572    236087      199831     113872    -43.02     235170     152121     168032     150128    -36.16    0.80

 O  SRI LKA     346169    261160      216152     104113    -51.83     254828     184703     153181     149121    -41.48    0.79

 O  JORDAN      167839    118755      108259     108086     -0.16     130186     108429     143827     118582     -8.91    0.63

 O  EGYPT       147850    126805      113141     102574     -9.34     125917     128947     122274     116238     -7.69    0.62


 O  _ASEAN     4331451   3951258     3407596    2973087    -12.75    4042711    3703945    3609193    3516749    -13.01   18.72

 O  _CBI        782098   1254950     1005755     910465     -9.47    1146068    1221585    1213621    1159660      1.19    6.17

 O  _CAFTA      692097   1224669      975656     906957     -7.04    1098942    1217495    1209729    1155970      5.19    6.15

 O  _SUB-SAHA   122931    119623       94412     107282     13.63     117621     144057     125952     132493     12.64    0.71