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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 342/642 :  SKIRTS
                                            Data in Doz , 14.90 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     20649905  15580756    13728733   13667561     -0.45   15691192   15272250   15242945   15519584     -1.09  100.00

 O  CHINA P    9893759   7201936     6391426    5736611    -10.25    7337151    6305854    6303181    6547121    -10.77   42.19

 O  INDIA      2044579   1339371     1220763    1795314     47.06    1343307    1882607    1893664    1913922     42.48   12.33

 O  VIETNAM    1151201   1375289     1192338    1266694      6.24    1340078    1419805    1432458    1449645      8.18    9.34

 O  INDNSIA    1697788   1501216     1360616    1282438     -5.75    1497098    1466842    1428425    1423038     -4.95    9.17

 O  BNGLDSH     782671    837540      717718    1040064     44.91     795482    1136211    1148779    1159886     45.81    7.47

 O  CAMBOD      614261    368281      325988     416765     27.85     372799     446129     457360     459058     23.14    2.96

 O  GUATMAL     633140    400455      321152     335602      4.50     404553     423891     415881     414905      2.56    2.67

 O  PHIL R      439449    316392      263688     279432      5.97     290485     337520     339205     332136     14.34    2.14

 O  SRI LKA     375657    292762      261885     265363      1.33     296944     301826     296483     296240     -0.24    1.91

 O  MEXICO      352024    255851      219789     218808     -0.45     241454     259343     254870     254870      5.56    1.64

 O  HONDURA     288005    246893      177208     119079    -32.80     230319     201597     196772     188764    -18.04    1.22

 O  THAILND     387532    244518      222759     140821    -36.78     272019     161672     157806     162580    -40.23    1.05

 O  CHINA T     218548    150592      135194      95870    -29.09     157428     120344     116889     111268    -29.32    0.72

 O  EGYPT       111051     63232       49132      93217     89.73      56759     101466     101910     107317     89.07    0.69

 O  MALAYSA     206660    126692      112555      79017    -29.80     153059      90549      89238      93154    -39.14    0.60


 O  _ASEAN     4548467   3982910     3525140    3492546     -0.92    3974391    3954935    3936760    3950316     -0.61   25.45

 O  _CBI       1246156    839277      665597     568491    -14.59     835984     763364     749826     742171    -11.22    4.78

 O  _CAFTA     1243822    836716      663136     566312    -14.60     833194     761775     747738     739892    -11.20    4.77