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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 340/640 :  NON-KNIT SHIRTS
                                            Data in Doz , 20.10 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     43019944  37190863    31851908   28279158    -11.22   38096063   34321163   34163319   33618113    -11.75  100.00

 O  CHINA P    7557021   8001766     6728562    7774164     15.54    7886434    8548303    8798435    9047368     14.72   26.91

 O  BNGLDSH    9111046   7642447     6777012    6186350     -8.72    8046191    7578692    7499527    7051785    -12.36   20.98

 O  INDNSIA    3936135   3383543     2884076    2507741    -13.05    3486199    3079713    3050201    3007208    -13.74    8.95

 O  VIETNAM    3272364   2939155     2452792    2286970     -6.76    3006777    2742069    2736196    2773333     -7.76    8.25

 O  INDIA      3072548   2704987     2337687    1760182    -24.70    2740557    2262435    2197819    2127482    -22.37    6.33

 O  HONDURA    1920594   1662893     1372260    1053805    -23.21    1670181    1406853    1366407    1344438    -19.50    4.00

 O  MEXICO     1362409   1116604      934848     813087    -13.02    1101445    1020092    1015149     994843     -9.68    2.96

 O  SRI LKA    1246780   1049753      908463     757390    -16.63    1090222     935320     919246     898680    -17.57    2.67

 O  SALVADR     973934    990502      831179     692692    -16.66     994935     894423     867125     852015    -14.36    2.53

 O  PHIL R      737550    703996      595542     480119    -19.38     705432     583505     584815     588573    -16.57    1.75

 O  MALAYSA     780061    618889      523705     479220     -8.49     638840     594787     599195     574404    -10.09    1.71

 O  MAURIT      557104    577704      489655     449900     -8.12     575284     510483     536469     537949     -6.49    1.60

 O  HG KONG    1563334    954574      863952     372733    -56.86    1043146     522729     490549     463355    -55.58    1.38

 O  NICARAG     907272    637003      546150     339283    -37.88     649549     462438     460156     430136    -33.78    1.28

 O  THAILND     752996    541438      457185     304683    -33.36     582569     397638     400423     388936    -33.24    1.16


 O  _ASEAN    10132916   8611443     7261571    6257583    -13.83    8868305    7726422    7667824    7607455    -14.22   22.63

 O  _CBI       4489165   3913053     3287045    2479622    -24.56    3967512    3279025    3189072    3105630    -21.72    9.24

 O  _CAFTA     4365842   3777470     3164470    2335038    -26.21    3823311    3122192    3035256    2948038    -22.89    8.77

 O  _SUB-SAHA  1003012    963010      822013     645537    -21.47     955328     780598     797484     786534    -17.67    2.34

 O  _ANDEAN     142779    108553       93712      48862    -47.86     115201      68946      66647      63703    -44.70    0.19