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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 338/339 :  COTTON KNIT SHIRTS
                                            Data in Doz ,  6.00 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    424751574 420642513   357804317  319158976    -10.80  422116514  387620367  385226243  381997172     -9.50  100.00

 O  CHINA P   30405113  32210998    25915063   46577272     79.73   29734400   47707505   49973187   52873207     77.82   13.84

 O  HONDURA   54078805  51807755    43223778   29213510    -32.41   51908741   41311397   39832203   37797487    -27.18    9.89

 O  VIETNAM   28400898  37644330    31778703   31356980     -1.33   36752444   36491448   36805607   37222607      1.28    9.74

 O  INDNSIA   21471246  26220060    22561015   24680011      9.39   25839052   28480147   28517325   28339056      9.68    7.42

 O  MEXICO    30322113  28199829    24231724   18931616    -21.87   28811422   23636955   23172878   22899721    -20.52    5.99

 O  GUATMAL   25398469  25244102    21958748   19156107    -12.76   25604419   22825738   22432051   22441461    -12.35    5.87

 O  SALVADR   26499879  29200201    24316340   17443323    -28.27   28862911   23655517   23007977   22327184    -22.64    5.84

 O  INDIA     21100764  20542833    17500236   16746256     -4.31   20285857   19889810   20038869   19788853     -2.45    5.18

 O  CAMBOD    21413475  22103190    19066854   15670471    -17.81   22454191   19020478   19008776   18706807    -16.69    4.90

 O  HAITI     15003998  16984839    13711601   15311088     11.67   16480298   19533545   19351133   18584326     12.77    4.87

 O  NICARAG   19965007  20360260    17387176   15604266    -10.25   20755701   17898035   18216904   18577350    -10.50    4.86

 O  PAKISTN   19105501  19297829    16509682   15245691     -7.66   19385794   18434098   18269289   18033838     -6.97    4.72

 O  BNGLDSH   13255838  16584667    14027597   14544199      3.68   15886595   17256559   17241049   17101269      7.65    4.48

 O  PERU       9549392   8429934     7458385    5486283    -26.44    8873350    6825207    6610624    6457832    -27.22    1.69

 O  THAILND    6896723   6695424     5671336    3931725    -30.67    6722289    5441592    5203309    4955813    -26.28    1.30


 O  _CBI     145545175 147427831   123986689   98969233    -20.18  147645117  127855682  125585811  122410375    -17.09   32.04

 O  _CAFTA   130248383 130206149   110070290   83630310    -24.02  130924083  108224985  106157466  103766169    -20.74   27.16

 O  _ASEAN    97192768 106844050    91689471   83161523     -9.30  106985044   99256856   99002658   98316102     -8.10   25.74

 O  _ANDEAN   10964401   9230053     8176770    5805349    -29.00    9746950    7278960    7038474    6858632    -29.63    1.80

 O  _SUB-SAHA 10732923   7689544     6522794    4308713    -33.94    7924644    5962289    5754984    5475463    -30.91    1.43