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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 341/641 :  NON-KNIT BLOUSES
                                            Data in Doz , 12.10 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     45350695  39968548    34825569   33805385     -2.93   40832949   38601199   38908657   38948364     -4.62  100.00

 O  CHINA P   20872417  19723111    17106410   17092137     -0.08   19972278   19511275   19638009   19708838     -1.32   50.60

 O  INDIA      6341366   5115261     4528442    4696536      3.71    5220690    5038762    5201195    5283355      1.20   13.57

 O  INDNSIA    5755513   5325872     4734533    3980670    -15.92    5428533    4643318    4638983    4572009    -15.78   11.74

 O  BNGLDSH    2970538   2374393     2101447    2018371     -3.95    2511065    2241936    2283176    2291317     -8.75    5.88

 O  VIETNAM    1577010   1803189     1504616    1827325     21.45    1811526    2104635    2118901    2125898     17.35    5.46

 O  CAMBOD      992992    616397      542174     619212     14.21     652627     683524     688265     693435      6.25    1.78

 O  MEXICO     1211283    766359      654585     526047    -19.64     818665     646256     646815     637821    -22.09    1.64

 O  PHIL R      660289    488490      412954     385453     -6.66     511312     472806     465053     460989     -9.84    1.18

 O  SRI LKA     755769    513476      421492     363039    -13.87     520444     474927     469540     455023    -12.57    1.17

 O  THAILND     722348    591878      521114     376963    -27.66     636978     468458     459663     447727    -29.71    1.15

 O  PAKISTN     431520    334403      294276     298909      1.57     353674     321299     330687     339036     -4.14    0.87

 O  HONDURA     514414    386998      325383     259504    -20.25     409278     320669     322474     321119    -21.54    0.82

 O  NICARAG     174219    182353      148118     121980    -17.65     180665     156755     155063     156215    -13.53    0.40

 O  EGYPT       110390    122824      107153     134012     25.07     128949     149047     147885     149683     16.08    0.38

 O  SALVADR     215663    182571      162105     124925    -22.94     187547     148618     144613     145391    -22.48    0.37


 O  _ASEAN     9848076   8983356     7847016    7287880     -7.13    9188474    8504904    8502956    8424220     -8.32   21.63

 O  _CBI       1322065   1094168      931641     780301    -16.24    1138414     950114     944844     942828    -17.18    2.42

 O  _CAFTA     1308615   1066373      906894     691309    -23.77    1113385     866005     859494     850788    -23.59    2.18

 O  _SUB-SAHA   199693    210842      177761     187377      5.41     206410     229417     227016     220458      6.81    0.57