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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 347/348 :  COTTON TROUSERS
                                            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    183362607 180211346   155643445  147338257     -5.34  180918808  172328108  172414441  171906158     -4.98  100.00

 O  CHINA P   22109441  23978535    19633659   38431454     95.74   21321689   38729680   40739542   42776330    100.62   24.88

 O  BNGLDSH   19792969  24851587    21115091   22310217      5.66   24059657   26340258   26248406   26046713      8.26   15.15

 O  MEXICO    20797948  18599745    15832864   13634278    -13.89   18834197   16841818   16596966   16401159    -12.92    9.54

 O  VIETNAM   13471079  15226890    13191316   12504457     -5.21   15384174   14667944   14611251   14540031     -5.49    8.46

 O  INDNSIA   10712750  10550108     9249230    8473653     -8.39   10649724    9622902    9790151    9774531     -8.22    5.69

 O  CAMBOD    11512514  11909690    10523528    7227438    -31.32   12265676    9011683    8743918    8613600    -29.77    5.01

 O  INDIA      6413417   7133180     6321996    5232924    -17.23    7143419    5870640    5954307    6044108    -15.39    3.52

 O  PAKISTN    6286605   6708838     5753591    4744784    -17.53    6685877    5736300    5683009    5700031    -14.75    3.32

 O  EGYPT      5626783   6039741     5250225    4771839     -9.11    5980463    5635048    5641884    5561355     -7.01    3.24

 O  SRI LKA    5387920   5151239     4369340    3636732    -16.77    5125898    4559348    4499275    4418631    -13.80    2.57

 O  NICARAG    5045736   4537132     4021819    3115683    -22.53    4943075    3774094    3718880    3630996    -26.54    2.11

 O  HONDURA    5416425   4984543     4389251    2935638    -33.12    5127002    3783842    3651436    3530930    -31.13    2.05

 O  PHIL R     3908993   3592730     3077686    1930327    -37.28    3666640    2596275    2546755    2445371    -33.31    1.42

 O  KENYA      2663359   2801700     2389242    1978452    -17.19    2850416    2711820    2620972    2390910    -16.12    1.39

 O  LESOTHO    2822650   2632702     2188830    1851174    -15.43    2588959    2452047    2335719    2295046    -11.35    1.34


 O  _ASEAN    43839627  45087553    39387678   32000372    -18.76   45987732   38553967   38179739   37700247    -18.02   21.93

 O  _CBI      20054711  16638449    14820071   11404503    -23.05   17778145   13536962   13468546   13222881    -25.62    7.69

 O  _CAFTA    19683717  16110913    14333208   10747282    -25.02   17221247   12921393   12815234   12524987    -27.27    7.29

 O  _SUB-SAHA  9300440   9007957     7646772    6046916    -20.92    8892827    8482891    8046182    7408101    -16.70    4.31

 O  _ANDEAN    1454660   1199712     1037792     628243    -39.46    1237629     858473     827044     790163    -36.16    0.46