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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 335/635 :  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     32926591  31455797    27005386   23232233    -13.97   32169930   28924416   28149876   27682644    -13.95  100.00

 O  CHINA P   19375988  18437682    16068187   13625581    -15.20   19004609   16600039   16076983   15995076    -15.84   57.78

 O  VIETNAM    3536877   3573665     3014619    3078623      2.12    3628367    3666205    3637479    3637669      0.26   13.14

 O  INDNSIA    1767484   2025920     1648564    1585253     -3.84    2027236    2023781    2059267    1962609     -3.19    7.09

 O  BNGLDSH     830155   1075392      881971     713325    -19.12    1009859    1039583     971658     906746    -10.21    3.28

 O  CAMBOD      722540    645154      551263     714738     29.65     676155     746314     780122     808629     19.59    2.92

 O  INDIA       704725    618018      547744     428272    -21.81     648113     536996     512410     498546    -23.08    1.80

 O  PAKISTN     616806    457507      389443     390415      0.25     476868     483477     472402     458479     -3.86    1.66

 O  PHIL R      652900    524683      438375     319059    -27.22     537557     451226     416249     405367    -24.59    1.46

 O  SRI LKA     481154    399971      346265     270300    -21.94     429498     338099     332514     324006    -24.56    1.17

 O  GUATMAL     587592    375823      334750     251403    -24.90     433513     320033     309421     292476    -32.53    1.06

 O  SALVADR     255166    272324      237813     251175      5.62     275957     260844     273231     285686      3.53    1.03

 O  JORDAN      182838    280870      168153     165348     -1.67     201395     291698     285108     278065     38.07    1.00

 O  MALAYSA     270876    287568      189343     161474    -14.72     256835     264552     265053     259699      1.12    0.94

 O  CANADA      403156    343167      300397     203606    -32.22     347455     284134     277564     246376    -29.09    0.89

 O  MEXICO      378286    235937      202861     150923    -25.60     253642     191477     186676     183999    -27.46    0.66


 O  _ASEAN     7352621   7312490     6060292    6014367     -0.76    7388638    7386751    7375209    7266565     -1.65   26.25

 O  _CBI       1100835   1086459      980749     675633    -31.11    1155505     871581     801714     781343    -32.38    2.82

 O  _CAFTA     1066544   1044296      938815     673160    -28.30    1100616     862657     795395     778641    -29.25    2.81

 O  _SUB-SAHA   165897    166129      143704     150774      4.92     164587     157101     160798     173199      5.23    0.63

 O  _ANDEAN      39360     36721       33249      15499    -53.39      36547      21038      19513      18971    -48.09    0.07