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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 351/651 :  Cotton and MMF Night
                                            Data in Doz , 43.50 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     36241492  34848063    29957432   26915786    -10.15   34804180   32680594   32667149   31806417     -8.61  100.00

 O  CHINA P   20194135  20376441    17669847   16533148     -6.43   20439765   19103527   19438142   19239742     -5.87   60.49

 O  CAMBOD     4667366   4692505     4021811    3104304    -22.81    4582490    3996485    3929373    3774998    -17.62   11.87

 O  BNGLDSH    2461754   1921422     1656215    1502124     -9.30    2010375    1954820    1952942    1767331    -12.09    5.56

 O  INDIA      1276928   1420527     1244021    1120836     -9.90    1425649    1300069    1320790    1297342     -9.00    4.08

 O  VIETNAM     914492   1243145     1018349     871436    -14.43    1189379    1163916    1138516    1096232     -7.83    3.45

 O  PAKISTN    1223198    891399      721914     757679      4.95     870105     879939     927245     927164      6.56    2.92

 O  INDNSIA     657889    703463      533626     542533      1.67     629866     832712     752768     712370     13.10    2.24

 O  PHIL R      958234    655681      522869     515687     -1.37     674390     662717     668673     648499     -3.84    2.04

 O  THAILND     507583    372497      329232     345287      4.88     382946     389432     398490     388552      1.46    1.22

 O  MALAYSA     450825    233071      195260     237766     21.77     242499     293579     275856     275577     13.64    0.87

 O  MEXICO      394211    344445      298626     215355    -27.88     360838     270696     265815     261174    -27.62    0.82

 O  SRI LKA     327163    302280      255956     147863    -42.23     297222     212742     197119     194187    -34.67    0.61

 O  ARAB EM     105811    145417      103323     124935     20.92     114733     251722     241593     167029     45.58    0.53

 O  SALVADR     295987    141037      114265     124036      8.55     133078     129333     143478     150808     13.32    0.47

 O  TURKEY      140147    104680       91045     114465     25.72     102328     143405     132412     128100     25.19    0.40


 O  _ASEAN     8167996   7913512     6634286    5624870    -15.22    7714710    7348599    7176708    6904096    -10.51   21.71

 O  _CBI        887578    637128      555371     363119    -34.62     646938     523171     485394     444876    -31.23    1.40

 O  _CAFTA      856273    627721      548719     334362    -39.06     639392     494436     454911     413364    -35.35    1.30

 O  _ANDEAN     105419     60316       50676      49080     -3.15      67956      60846      60879      58720    -13.59    0.18