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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 350/650 :  DRESSING GOWNS
                                            Data in Doz , 42.60 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     14964333  14203195    11967385   10705430    -10.54   14139821   13153966   12977177   12941240     -8.48  100.00

 O  CHINA P    8257884   8697364     7325661    6355777    -13.24    8566297    7789851    7752841    7727480     -9.79   59.71

 O  VIETNAM    1262737   1698389     1418528    1445586      1.91    1647127    1658094    1674167    1725447      4.75   13.33

 O  CAMBOD      675325    750218      633427     614142     -3.04     729801     844767     747797     730933      0.16    5.65

 O  INDIA      1159281    529311      433054     570624     31.77     522220     729152     711770     666881     27.70    5.15

 O  INDNSIA     668147    502179      453923     537111     18.33     575310     483150     517231     585367      1.75    4.52

 O  BNGLDSH     225921    250657      197674     175927    -11.00     216862     270078     229418     228910      5.56    1.77

 O  SRI LKA     285934    105232       82952     196281    136.62     108342     165475     200439     218561    101.73    1.69

 O  MALAYSA     256094    291897      220780     130787    -40.76     247146     244926     228353     201904    -18.31    1.56

 O  PAKISTN     258257    252243      214186     150970    -29.51     240754     202252     186998     189027    -21.49    1.46

 O  PHIL R      368735    224527      201689     134011    -33.56     264692     177160     169771     156849    -40.74    1.21

 O  TURKEY      317963    179332      153665      69225    -54.95     211975     129549     115723      94892    -55.23    0.73

 O  EGYPT        58544     48277       33776      56467     67.18      34581      53062      65132      70968    105.22    0.55

 O  SALVADR     103135     78048       62272      52179    -16.21      80845      69098      66513      67955    -15.94    0.53

 O  GUATMAL     176676    139615      125472      42201    -66.37     139108      75930      71402      56344    -59.50    0.44

 O  THAILND     119907     96252       84127      31329    -62.76      94817      54376      47258      43454    -54.17    0.34


 O  _ASEAN     3356331   3565333     3013983    2897125     -3.88    3560402    3466726    3389957    3448475     -3.14   26.65

 O  _CBI        475465    279609      245257     133398    -45.61     292394     188106     181054     167750    -42.63    1.30

 O  _CAFTA      475067    278328      243996     132147    -45.84     290841     186547     179734     166479    -42.76    1.29