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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 349/649 :  BRASSIERES
                                            Data in Doz ,  4.00 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     49612424  49211330    41855742   37798719     -9.69   49912826   45241941   45111186   45154307     -9.53  100.00

 O  CHINA P   22684403  24217422    20627821   21449664      3.98   24634453   24285086   24564578   25039265      1.64   55.45

 O  INDNSIA    6162869   5028305     4296371    3629824    -15.51    5136463    4478336    4405979    4361758    -15.08    9.66

 O  THAILND    4498401   4936836     4165446    3203317    -23.10    4891739    4152668    4073916    3974707    -18.75    8.80

 O  BNGLDSH    2522910   2807621     2402306    2267077     -5.63    2736696    2736302    2689582    2672392     -2.35    5.92

 O  HONDURA    2237346   2149894     1802896    1172906    -34.94    2197746    1626175    1583630    1519904    -30.84    3.37

 O  SRI LKA    1345705   1380434     1185337    1177098     -0.70    1392294    1385716    1396875    1372195     -1.44    3.04

 O  DOM REP    1808744   1419641     1184955     775778    -34.53    1399592    1120275    1050245    1010464    -27.80    2.24

 O  SALVADR     882266    982299      826022     706795    -14.43    1009456     893229     893231     863072    -14.50    1.91

 O  NICARAG     730399    649310      565797     538991     -4.74     697245     599405     606728     622504    -10.72    1.38

 O  MEXICO     1597450   1100855      985035     456659    -53.64    1225799     607694     600284     572479    -53.30    1.27

 O  PHIL R      796449    654924      534567     354765    -33.64     636203     500098     490162     475122    -25.32    1.05

 O  INDIA       538600    442575      394878     369581     -6.41     484296     415031     398448     417278    -13.84    0.92

 O  C RICA      633583    516710      434735     280061    -35.58     542831     387300     382624     362036    -33.31    0.80

 O  ISRAEL      250705    353854      275994     269401     -2.39     310654     358802     356718     347261     11.78    0.77

 O  MALAYSA     722903    677092      532055     171215    -67.82     667037     385202     339704     316252    -52.59    0.70


 O  _ASEAN    12473872  11629503     9796917    7581604    -22.61   11659624    9846759    9609469    9414190    -19.26   20.85

 O  _CBI       6334729   5762071     4853747    3493749    -28.02    5892319    4650939    4541834    4402073    -25.29    9.75

 O  _CAFTA     6302394   5727537     4822540    3476884    -27.90    5856870    4630243    4520522    4381881    -25.18    9.70