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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 336/636 :  DRESSES
                                            Data in Doz , 37.90 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     27495553  31618204    27416453   30788900     12.30   31455355   34772313   34859580   34990651     11.24  100.00

 O  CHINA P   14647478  17138062    14902520   16319733      9.51   17142700   18234416   18406079   18555275      8.24   53.03

 O  VIETNAM    2623037   3545105     3066396    3570232     16.43    3539742    4033873    4023745    4048941     14.39   11.57

 O  INDIA      2555043   2747283     2444777    3118135     27.54    2679030    3375177    3409690    3420641     27.68    9.78

 O  INDNSIA    1305415   1821267     1532295    1866811     21.83    1717531    2198932    2152973    2155783     25.52    6.16

 O  PHIL R     1030353   1216218      986700    1343940     36.21    1133796    1605891    1568421    1573458     38.78    4.50

 O  BNGLDSH     500093    758968      624140     842194     34.94     726028    1008418    1006332     977022     34.57    2.79

 O  SRI LKA     834901    912696      793890     700895    -11.71     949765     831569     835980     819701    -13.69    2.34

 O  CAMBOD      397002    594718      515580     538205      4.39     579798     610909     622409     617343      6.48    1.76

 O  MEXICO      608858    467345      433951     498173     14.80     484771     549372     539555     531567      9.65    1.52

 O  GUATMAL     568242    328819      310035     290905     -6.17     401280     299748     299325     309689    -22.82    0.89

 O  PAKISTN     209765    286939      253434     191723    -24.35     273467     254981     227145     225228    -17.64    0.64

 O  CHINA T     227149    148939      135494     186680     37.78     151384     186925     192232     200125     32.20    0.57

 O  SALVADR     250376    218292      181198     154405    -14.79     223570     192871     190006     191499    -14.34    0.55

 O  THAILND     236717    185231      152992     153335      0.22     186810     186178     188551     185574     -0.66    0.53

 O  MALAYSA      76066    123482       94766     141562     49.38     106110     160817     168469     170278     60.47    0.49


 O  _ASEAN     5674606   7498439     6360940    7628222     19.92    7276203    8811970    8738628    8765721     20.47   25.05

 O  _CBI        953282    643003      576252     526657     -8.61     723674     590309     584469     593408    -18.00    1.70

 O  _CAFTA      951227    639045      572385     519522     -9.24     719521     583099     577257     586182    -18.53    1.68

 O  _ANDEAN     240115    172726      147280     102188    -30.62     172507     135473     133481     127634    -26.01    0.36

 O  _SUB-SAHA    20548     22847       19763      70098    254.69      25909      74165      75158      73182    182.46    0.21